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1. Co-Teaching: Strategies for Sharing and Improving the Teaching Experience

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Website

   Co-Teaching: Strategies for Sharing and Improving the Teaching Experience will discuss what is needed for a successful educational partnership. Several co-teaching models will be presented along with ideas for practical classroom applications.

2. Strategies for Engaging Young Learners

   Format(s): Text

   The difficulty in teaching young learners (YLs) in the EFL classroom is maintaining engagement throughout the lesson. Therefore, teachers of YLs need to incorporate activities that are meaningful, engaging, and also entertaining. This webinar will share practical tips and ideas for engaging young learners in the EFL classroom, including using fun songs with humor, using actions to accompany poetry and song lyrics, and promoting creativity. We will also focus on techniques for making input comprehensible, such as using gestures, visuals, and realia as learning tools. When using a variety of techniques and activities, children forget they are in a step-by-step language lesson, and the learning comes naturally.

3. Multi-Modal Writing: Promoting Digital Literacy in the English Language Classroom

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): MP3, Text

   This webinar discusses how multi-modal writing uses more than just words to communicate–it encourages students to use audio, video, photographs, and drawings to supplement their writing in meaningful ways.

4. Vocabulary Games: More than Just Wordplay

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This article presents five games for introducing or reviewing vocabulary along with a matrix that teachers can use to evaluate the types of word knowledge that is practiced in the vocabulary games their students play.

5. Crowdsourced Language Learning: Lessons for TESOL Educators from Online Language-Learning Enthusiasts

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Online language-learning sites have multiplied over the years, and this article offers suggestions for evaluating and getting the most out of them.

6. Teaching Better, Together: Literacy Coaching as Collaborative Professional Development

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors “provide readers with a starting point for considering literacy coaching as a viable model for sustainable collaborative teacher development in ELT settings.”

7. Ten Things to Enhance Learning and Fun in the Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This Teaching Technique introduces a fun, versatile game that gets students thinking and talking together about any number of topic categories.

8. Jigsaw Vocabulary

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This is a step-by-step description of an activity that incorporates group work to introduce learners to new vocabulary by using the jigsaw strategy.

9. Pragmatics of Complaining

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This article presents twelve activities for teaching the pragmatics of complaining, including strategies, tasks, and specific scenarios.

10. Group Dynamics: Belonging in the ESL Classroom

    In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    The author provides suggestions for English language activities that promote bonding at the beginning of a course, during a course, and at the end of a course.

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