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1. "Teaching in Emergencies: Building Resilient Practices as Language-Learning Teachers"

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The authors present specific steps and suggest sources that teachers can use to support students’ socio-emotional and language learning, with a particular focus on teaching in emergencies and responding to student crises.

2. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

3. Online Double-Communication Lines to Enhance Student Interaction

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author describes ways to bring a popular classroom technique to online environments, showing how to have students form virtual “lines” and then move from partner to partner via a sequence of changing breakout rooms.

4. A Forum Retrospective: 60 Years of English Language Teaching

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This is the second of four articles looking at various aspects of Forum as the journal moves into its 60th year of publication. This article reviews decade-by-decade trends in English language teaching, as reflected in articles published in Forum.

5. Better Writing with Big Paper: Peer Correction in Collaborative Learning Teams

   In: English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   The author explains how to use “Big Paper” as the basis of a hands-on, collaborative, student-driven activity that helps learners focus on form, grammar, spelling, and punctuation in a unique and engaging approach to peer review.

6. Motivating Student Reading through Post-Reading Book Creation

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The authors explain the importance of reading with a purpose—in this case, learners create a new book based on a text they have just read (or listened to).

7. Getting Students to Speak Up: Classroom Atmosphere Is Key

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The author describes a challenge that is familiar to many language teachers: trying to get students to speak up independently, share thoughts, and participate authentically in the target language. The article includes general and specific tips for creating a comfortable, communicative classroom environment.

8. Reader's Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.

9. Reflections: Forum in 2022

   In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This is the third of four articles looking at various aspects of Forum as the journal moves through its 60th year of publication. This article gives background on how the current sections of Forum were developed and explains the purposes that each section serves.

10. My Classroom: Mauritius

    In: English Teaching Forum 2022, Volume 60, Number 3 Format(s): Text

    Danielle Zélin runs her own school, the Language Mood English Club, and incorporates the surroundings (beach, forest, community) on the island of Mauritius in her teaching. The article describes Danielle’s approach to teaching, the many projects she oversees and takes part in, and the island’s lively, multi-lingual environment.

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