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1. Teacher's Corner: Adapting Materials for Students' Levels

   Format(s): Text

   Finding and choosing materials to use in classes can be a challenge. Teachers must take into account a number of things, including authenticity, the original source, the target language skill, and learners’ language levels and ages.

2. Enhancing Learner Motivation in the EFL Classroom

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

   This session, "Enhancing Learner Motivation in the EFL Classroom," addresses how to enhance our own motivation as teachers and then explore ways to enhance the motivation of our students. We will anchor the discussion on Dörnyei’s framework of motivational teaching practices.

3. Connecting to Learn: Growing Professionally through Teacher-to-Teacher Engagement

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

   This session, "Connecting to Learn: Growing Professionally through Teacher-to-Teacher Engagement," explores how connecting and conversing with peers can offer teachers great opportunities for professional growth.

4. English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 2

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   Find strategies for combining authentic materials, task-based learning, and reading stations … finding heterogeneity in cultural homogeneity … using peace education as a basis for writing about a peacemaker … using an asynchronous video app to stimulate oral interaction … starting with “place mats” and progressing to writing essays … and much more.

5. English Teaching Forum 2024, Volume 62, Number 4

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   Among the topics in this issue: helping students make connections between the texts they read and their lives … awareness of and use of inclusive language … improving English proficiency in professional training … describing objects in a fun, interactive way … practicing speaking through collaboration and scaffolding … a vibrant teacher and school in northern Senegal … and much more.

6. Poems About English and Access (1)

   In: Poetry Format(s): Text

   Read poems written by learners from around the world. The theme of these poems is English and Access Programs. Download the poems or read them online..

7. Activities for the Present Progressive: "I'm Standing on a Corner"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   In this week’s activity, students practice the present progressive while asking for directions.

8. Progressive Tense: "He is Looking for Emma Fields"

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner uses a video game and a jigsaw activity for students to review the present, past, and future progressive

9. Prepositions of Location: The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Grammar Fun Format(s): Text

   This week’s activity focuses on teaching prepositions through a virtual visit to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History!

10. Teaching Techniques: Running for Your Words!

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

    In Swiss schools, English language textbooks for eight- to thirteen-year-old children contain many arts-and-crafts and science-experiment lessons.

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