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1. English Teaching Forum 2023, Volume 61, Number 1

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   Find strategies for making learning inclusive in digital learning environments … read the critical reflections of two professors who revised teacher-education curriculum during the pandemic … find ways to use fun facts to engage your students … learn about a mindful gratitude exercise … discover how to play “The Happiness Game” … get to know an English teacher in Bangladesh … and much more.

2. English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 2

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   Find suggestions and resources for planning and conducting a successful English Camp … using pop songs productively, for language practice and much more … turning Forum’s “The Lighter Side” puzzles into versatile teaching tools … giving students question-and-answer practice with light-hearted job interviews that provide serious benefits … and producing customized vocabulary wheels for fun, interactive language practice.

3. English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 1

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   Find suggestions for incorporating board games productively in your classes, no matter what level you teach or how large your classes are—and find four new Activate games, too! Also get ideas for using QAR to promote reading engagement and comprehension … getting students to retell stories by creating texts/tweets in their own words … using the Seven Wonders for project-based learning … and stimulating learning with vertical game boards.

4. Raggedy Ann Stories

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   Raggedy Ann Stories contains 13 short stories about the classic rag doll and her friends. Download the MP3 or listen online. Or download the MOBI or EPUB files for your e-reader.

5. Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation

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

6. The Pragmatics of Greetings: Teaching Speech Acts in the EFL Classroom

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

   This article will provide background information on this important speech act and instructional strategies for use in the classroom to help teachers equip their students with a critical component to successful interactions.

7. Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners

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   The term literacy refers generally to a person’s ability to read and write. (Though literacy is also used more broadly for describing critical knowledge and productive ability in other things, such as financial literacy, media literacy, and cultural literacy, in this Teacher’s Corner, we’ll refer to reading and writing skills).

8. Publish, Don't Perish: Ten Tips

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

   The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to identifying the hidden rules and explicating the sometimes intimidating world of publishing.

9. Using Freewriting to Make Sense of Literature

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

   Articles provide practical, innovative ideas for teaching English, based on current theory.

10. Using Concept Mapping to Teach Young EFL Learners Reading Skills

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

    Articles provide practical, innovative ideas for teaching English, based on current theory.

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