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1. 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.

2. Adapting Your Materials for Use in Mixed Ability Classrooms

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

   This session, "Adapting Your Materials for Use in Mixed Ability Classrooms," addresses the challenge of dealing with large classes of students with mixed abilities.

3. My Classroom: Burma

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   My Classroom focuses on one teacher’s classroom and describes ways that the teaching environment shapes learning.

4. Activity 2 - Diagnostic Assessment

   In: Teacher's Corner: Making Meaningful Assessments Format(s): E-book

   Diagnostic assessments can help us recognize and identify what our students’ language learning needs are much earlier in a course. Learn all about diagnostic assessments in the Teacher’s Corner this week.

5. United States Institute of Peace Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators

   Format(s): Website

   Designed to support the work of educators as peace builders, these toolkits provide materials and lessons for teachers of middle and high school students to use in the classroom.

6. English Homework: What Makes Sense

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   The purpose of this article is to persuade English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and teacher trainers that homework is indeed beneficial by presenting multiple examples of high-quality homework assignments, as Dettmers et al. (2010) found in mathematics

7. CRITICAL CREATIVITY IN ACTION

   Format(s): Text

   In this Critical Creativity kit, you will find a printable 50-card deck containing 49 activities and one reference card, and a PDF comprehensive instruction manual. The Critical Creativity Activity Cards are a flexible collection of literacy strategies designed to help EFL teachers add opportunities for creative thinking to their classrooms.

8. Consciousness-Raising and Prepositions

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses consciousness-raising as a way to help students learn English prepositions. This technique, in which grammatical forms are highlighted in some way, can be helpful to teachers, especially when instructors have difficulty finding materials. The author shares her experience using consciousness-raising in a course in South Africa for ESL teachers.

9. Ten Great Low-Cost Teaching Tools

   In: English Teaching Forum 2010, Volume 48, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Teachers are asked to do a lot with few resources. Some teachers must move quickly from school to school throughout the day. This article describes the teaching bag, which is made to help teachers be effective and save money. The author's teaching tools are lightweight, affordable, and multi-purposed. They include the expected (e.g., scissors and scratch paper, colored markers) as well as the more unique (e.g., sticky putty, pizza box lids).

10. Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary

    Format(s): Website

    The Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary is a useful resource for teachers and learners of English.

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