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1. Literature Circles as Support for Language Development

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   There are many instructional approaches for helping English language learners improve both reading comprehension and overall language proficiency.

2. Making the Most of Large Classes by Using Learning Teams

   In: Teacher's Corner: Common Challenges in the English Classroom Format(s): Text

   Large classes can be challenging. Learn ways to make the most of large classes by using learning teams in this week’s Teacher’s Corner.

3. Prepositions of Movement

   In: Teacher's Corner: Prepositions Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner includes a fun treasure hunt activity during which students practice prepositions of movement.

4. Teacher's Corner: Visual Note-Taking

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   Our students live in a world of videos and photos, logos and emojis, abbreviations and instant messages.

5. Week 2 - Current Events: Regional Reporters

   In: Teacher's Corner: Building Global Citizens Format(s): Text

   After her life-changing experience on the 2012 IVLP, A New Beginning: Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, Riham Awad started a volunteer mentor program that is creating a wave of young entrepreneurs in Egypt.

6. Week 1 - Tips for Starting Out Strong

   In: Creating a Positive Classroom Community Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we examine what teachers can do to create a positive learning environment!

7. Strategies to Support Comprehension in Early Literacy

   In: Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners Format(s): Text

   Focusing on comprehension with beginner-level students can seem challenging. When students are just beginning to learn how to read, it can feel overwhelming to add comprehension activities.

8. My Classroom: China

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Ms. Huang and Ms. Zhu are dedicated to helping their students build interest in the English language inside and outside the classroom.

9. Teacher's Corner: Simple Ways to Incorporate Pragmatics in the EFL Classroom

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   Teaching vocabulary and common phrases is an essential task of the English language classroom, but it is also important to teach the pragmatics of a language to help learners use language appropriately in different situations. This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the idea of pragmatics and why it is a valuable component to include in instruction. The article also contains resources and ideas for including pragmatics instruction and building up students’ pragmatic competence.

10. Teacher's Corner: Engaging English Language Learners with New Forms of Literacy

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    In the 21st century, our students have to know how to read and communicate using more than just words on paper or a computer screen. Communication takes many forms, and our classroom teaching will benefit by bringing in these new forms of communication. April’s Teacher’s Corner looks at several new literacies: instant messaging, comics and graphic novels, short-form videos, and podcasting. We explore what these forms are and how we can use them in the classroom to help students develop their language skills and to solve problems in an ever-changing world of communication.

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