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1. Trend 3 - Digital Game Based Learning (DGBL)

   In: Teacher's Corner: Education Trends and Issues in the World Today Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we will explore ways we can take advantage of video games for the language classroom even when we do not play video games ourselves.

2. Week 1 - Building a Strong Classroom Community

   In: Teacher's Corner: Promoting Learner Engagement Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we offer three suggestions to promote student-student relationships. You can use these in your own classrooms as you work toward greater student engagement.

3. Week 2 - Observing News Media

   In: Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy Format(s): Text

   This week, help students to generate observation questions to collect information about news sources.

4. Adapting a Resource for Multi-Level Classrooms

   In: Teacher's Corner: Adapting Materials for Students' Levels Format(s): Text

   It is likely most English language teachers have had to teach a group of learners who vary greatly in their language abilities.

5. "Move and Say" to Build Foundational Reading Skills

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

   In the introduction for this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we defined phonemic awareness as a student’s ability to understand that words are made up of sounds.

6. Teacher's Corner: Service Learning in the Language Classroom

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we’ll examine ways that you can incorporate Service Learning strategies to get your students involved with experiential learning! During week 1, students will brainstorm community issues that they can help solve.

7. Teaching Techniques: Group Grammar

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

   Before becoming a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, I taught French, and too often I saw that impersonal grammar exercises about “Jacques” and “Nathalie” were meaningless to the students. Worse, those exercises led to apathy and stagnation. So I decided to do grammar activities in which students used each other’s names, instead of random ones, and used the grammar to express ideas about their own lives.

8. Photography Exhibition

   In: Teacher's Corner: Using Art in the English Language Classroom Format(s): Text

   Bring the museum to your classroom! In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students create a photography exhibition to reinforce language learned in the classroom.

9. World News Report

   In: Teacher's Corner: Reported Speech Format(s): Text

   Bring the news into your classroom. This week’s Teacher’s Corner shows how students can practice reported speech while reporting news stories.

10. Activity 2 - Diagnostic Assessment

    In: Teacher's Corner: Making Meaningful Assessments Format(s): E-book

    Diagnostic assessments can help us recognize and identify what our students’ language learning needs are much earlier in a course. Learn all about diagnostic assessments in the Teacher’s Corner this week.

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