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1. Teacher's Corner: Career Vocabulary

   Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the world of work and careers. Each week covers career-related vocabulary that students can use to find a career, interview for a job, or start a business.

2. Teacher's Corner: Professional Development for Teacher Trainers

   Format(s): Text

   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, find ways to encourage and build teachers’ professional knowledge and skills. This week we show how to set up discussion groups to discuss research and practice.

3. Teacher's Corner: Travel and Tourism

   Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner explores the world of travel and tourism. Specifically, each week covers travel-related topics that students can use to practice speaking, reading, and listening.

4. Formative Assessment Strategies for the Student-centered Classroom

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

   This session, "Formative Assessment Strategies for the Student-centered Classroom," explores formative assessment as an essential element of student-centered classrooms.

5. The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 2

   Format(s): Text

   The Lighter Side of TEFL, Volume 2, is a teacher’s resource book of fun activities for students of English as a Foreign Language.

6. Teachers Working Together: A Successful Community of Practice

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

   This session, "Teachers Working Together: A Successful Community of Practice," explores best practices and innovative ideas that can be shared and cultivated in a collaborative and engaging professional network called a Community of Practice (CoP).

7. Inquiry Notebooks for Twenty-First-Century Skill Development

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

   One way to incorporate inquiry-based learning and develop twenty-first-century skills is through inquiry notebooks. The article gives suggestions for using the notebooks in courses and provides a range of specific prompts designed to help learners think more critically and carefully over time.

8. Developing a Bilingual Thematic Vocabulary Workbook

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors describe how to create—together with students—bilingual vocabulary workbooks, ideal in situations where resources are limited and as a supplement to existing materials. The article explains how to apply the process that was used to develop vocabulary workbooks in Madagascar.

9. Using Identity to Introduce ICC Skills in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors describe a detailed, step-by-step procedure to help students analyze the concept of identity—with the use of “identity wheels” and a knowledge-skills-attitudes framework—and apply their understanding to develop intercultural communicative competence

10. Understanding Fast Speech with Online Videos and Quizzes

    In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    The author notes that “understanding fast speech can be an ongoing challenge for English learners of all levels” and presents online videos and interactive quizzes that help learners deal with blending, flap, H elision, syllable elision, and common phrases; the article includes a description of a lesson for using the suggested resources in class.

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