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1. Reader’s Guide

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 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.

2. Getting Young Learners to Stick to English

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author provides a number of creative ideas that can help learners “stick to English” as they communicate, build confidence, and have fun.

3. The Lighter Side: Medical Mix-Ups

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Oops! In each of these sentences, related to medicine and health, one word is misused and needs to be replaced with a word it rhymes with. Can you solve this fun puzzle?

4. Digital Age Pedagogy: Easily Enhance Your Teaching Practice with Technology

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

   The author describes a wide range of technology tools that language teachers and learners can use and offers tips on getting started and making the most productive use of the tools. Tech tools are becoming more plentiful and essential, and the article is a useful resource for teachers, whether they teach in person or virtually.

5. The Lighter Side: Sounds Good!

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

   In English, words with similar spellings don’t always rhyme, while words with different spellings might rhyme. Can you find the rhymes in this puzzle?

6. A Systematic Process for Assessing Assessment

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

   “How to assess assessments is often a dilemma for teachers and English language programs,” the author writes, and then goes on to offer a number of suggestions, charts, and guiding questions designed to help solve that dilemma.

7. Creating Community Online

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Video

   This session, "Creating Community Online," explored strategies for building community in the online English language classroom.

8. Effective Assessment Practices for Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning in an Online Environment

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

   The American English Webinar and Facebook Live sessions are hosted by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of English Language Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

9. Balancing Online Classes, Fun, and Kinesthetic Intelligence for Beginning Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   Here are a few basic ways to get beginning students talking and learning while using their home surroundings and items they find as resources for their lessons.

10. Integrating STEAM and English with Oral Language Routines

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

    This session, " Integrating STEAM and English with Oral Language Routines," demonstrates how oral language routines can provide a simple, flexible way to support students at any age or level as they learn to communicate effectively about technical, mathematical, and scientific ideas.

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