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1. Raising Phonological Awareness: A Task that benefits Language Learners with and without Learning Disabilities

   In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

   Teachers are tasked with many roles in the language classroom. In addition to teaching language, many must also act as cultural interpreters, counselors, disciplinarians, motivational speakers, and more.

2. Week 2 - In the News

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

   Here's some news! In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students practice journalism skills. This week’s activity allows students to learn the sections of a news story by writing about their interests.

3. Profits or Preservation?

   In: Teacher's Corner: Integrating Global Affairs into Your English Lessons Format(s): Text

   Using role-plays in your English language classroom is a great way to get students talking. In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students role-play a scenario about deforestation.

4. 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.

5. Reading to Support Writing

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   This week, we explain how to integrate reading into the academic writing curriculum by teaching students to conduct close readings and make annotations of their sources.

6. Gamified Learning: Two Activities that Foster Fun and Excitement into Any Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   Games are a great way for students to learn and practice language concepts and vocabulary. In this month’s Teacher’s Corner article, you’ll learn two basic games that do not require much in the way of materials and preparation. Moreover, they can be easily adapted for reviewing or reinforcing any number of language skills or elements! Read on to see how you can bring these games into your classroom.

7. Superstitions

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

   In this activity, students will examine superstition statements in English, will think about English equivalents for superstitions from their own culture, and will play a short guessing game related to superstitions.

8. Practical Tips for Increasing Listening Practice Time

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article help teachers of English reconsider how to think about listening tasks. It provides guidance for increasing classroom listening practice through short, dedicated tasks, with an emphasis on the practical business of setting up and “class-managing” listening activities in order to give students more practice.

9. Week 2 - Technology: Coding – A Language For the Future

   In: Teacher's Corner: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students practice the 21st-century skill of coding while developing reading and listening skills.

10. Teaching Self-Regulation Strategies to Language Learners

    In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

    Since the late 1980s, second language researchers and cognitive scientists have investigated the role of strategies in learning a language.

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