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1. Climate Change Communication and English Language Teaching

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

   This session, "Climate Change Communication and English Language Teaching," explores climate change vocabulary and vocabulary teaching tips, shares activity ideas, and introduces skills that will help learners analyze and communicate about climate change facts versus opinions.

2. Promoting Authentic Language Use with Tasks

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

   This session, "Promoting Authentic Language Use with Tasks," explores Tasked-Based Language Teaching by introducing the four criteria of tasks, presenting task types, and sharing examples of successful classroom tasks.

3. Building and Sustaining a Culture of Belonging

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

   This session, "Building and Sustaining a Culture of Belonging," explores activities to build student-student and teacher-student relationships within a language class setting that affirm students’ identities and improve students’ sense of belonging.

4. Teacher's Corner: Listening

   Format(s): Text

   These “Teacher’s Corner” activities are inspired by a framework for thinking about listening instruction presented in Beth Sheppard’s 2014 “Practical Activities for Balanced Listening Instruction” webinar, part of the Shaping the Way We Teach English webinar series.

5. Fostering Student Motivation: Reflecting on Teacher Experiences and Building Awareness of Motivation-Related Factors

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner will examine ways teachers can positively impact student motivation. Begin with this reflection activity about language learning.

6. Poems About Places

   In: Poetry Format(s): Text

   Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read the poems or download the PDFs.

7. Using Evidence in Academic Writing: Avoiding Plagiarism

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

   This webinar "Using Evidence in Academic Writing: Avoiding Plagiarism" will examine cultural assumptions about the definition of plagiarism and how external sources should be used in academic writing. We will explore how and why EFL/ESL students can benefit from explicit instruction on referencing sources to avoid plagiarism. The presenter will share several practical tips and classroom activities related to teaching quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

8. Poems About Places

   In: Poems About Places Format(s): Text

   Learn about places – cities, provinces, villages, countries – that are special to the students who wrote poems about them. Read or download the poems!

9. My Classroom: Burma

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   My Classroom focuses on one teacher’s classroom and describes ways that the teaching environment shapes learning.

10. Teacher's Corner: Movement in the Classroom

    Format(s): Text

    In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, get tips for adding movement to learning activities no matter what your classroom structure is!

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