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1. Teaching Techniques: Using “Storybird” in Young Learners’ Creative Writing Class

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Major changes in technology have had an influence on education.

2. Teacher's Corner: Making Meaningful Assessments

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   This month’s Teacher’s Corner focuses on making and designing meaningful assessments to use in the English language classroom. We will begin the month by examining what makes a meaningful assessment and then offer a series of assessment ideas that you can use and adapt to fit the needs of you and your students.

3. Ongoing Reflection and Post-Project Sharing

   In: Teacher's Corner: Service Learning in the Language Classroom Format(s): Text

   During our final week of Teacher’s Corner on Service Learning, we present strategies for students to share their experiences and reflections after the completion of a project.

4. 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.

5. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Grammar for Communicative Competence

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   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to teach grammar in ways that help students to build their communicative competence. A communicative grammar lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the target grammar item through specific communicative tasks and activities.This month’s article is filled with ideas and resources to help students use the language they are learning.

6. Theory and Research

   In: Teacher's Corner: Online Learning Format(s): Text

   To start this month’s Teacher’s Corner we will investigate the opportunities and pitfalls of online learning.

7. Reading to Support Writing

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   This week, we explain how to integrate reading into the academic writing curriculum by teaching students to conduct close readings and make annotations of their sources.

8. Using a Proofreading Checklist

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we share a simple activity that students lead and conduct in the final days before submitting an essay. The activity is aimed at helping students recognize errors before they submit their writing.

9. Week 4 - Reflecting on News

   In: Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy Format(s): Text

   This week, students will work together to create posters that communicate key issues and questions in news sources.

10. Week 4 - The Elevator Pitch

    In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Business English and Entrepreneurship Format(s): Text

    Show students how to develop and perform an elevator pitch for a company idea in this week’s Teacher’s Corner.

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