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1. Making Learning Fun: Interactive Activities To Build Student Motivation and Engagement In Your Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This webinar demonstrates how to spark students’ intrinsic motivation in the English language classroom.

2. Workshops: An Alternative to Student Writing Conferences

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique describes how teachers can use mini-workshops in place of student writing conferences and explains potential benefits of doing so.

3. Student-Centered Speaking Activities to Increase Fluency and Accuracy

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video

   This session, "Student-Centered Speaking Activities to Increase Fluency and Accuracy," focuses on activities that participants can use in teaching speaking in multi-level classes with students of all ages.

4. Using Question Grids to Scaffold, Monitor, and Evaluate Communicative Practice

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Grids can help learners stay on task during communicative activities. This article explains why, and it gives numerous examples that show how teachers can use grids with different language levels and for practice in almost any area of grammar and vocabulary.

5. Teaching Better, Together: Literacy Coaching as Collaborative Professional Development

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors “provide readers with a starting point for considering literacy coaching as a viable model for sustainable collaborative teacher development in ELT settings.”

6. “Listen to the Music: Using Songs in Listening and Speaking Classes”

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article provides detailed descriptions of three practical activities that integrate music with English language learning.

7. Activities to Support Students’ Out-of-Class Reading

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Teaching Technique gives suggestions for supporting students’ reading outside the classroom.

8. Using the Linguistic Landscape to Bridge Languages

   In: English Teaching Forum 2018, Volume 56, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique shows how languages found on public signs can help students practice English and understand the use of languages spoken in their context.

9. Using Songs to Teach English

   Format(s): MP3, Video

   This webinar, “Using Songs to Teach English” explores the myriad of ways songs and music can help create a classroom that is happy, interactive, and intellectually challenging. The presenter will introduce some effective techniques for incorporating music and song in the EFL and ESL classroom.

10. Coming to Grips with Progress Testing: Some Guidelines for Its Design

    In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    Progress testing is often neglected in communicative language teaching; yet it has a crucial role. This article, originally published in 1995, offers a rationale for testing and presents guidelines for designing app

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