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1. Board Game: What Do I Know About ...?

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Board Games Format(s): Text

   This board game allows students to share their knowledge about a variety of subjects. For this board game, you will find the downloadable game, game instructions, and game variations.

2. Integrating Pronunciation Across the Curriculum

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

   This webinar introduces content-based pronunciation activities that could be used in a reading, writing, or grammar course.

3. Understanding Documentation and Draft Writing for Business English

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

   This webinar considers how context, content, and tone can help make business-related draft writing processes more effective and enjoyable for both writers and readers.

4. Practical Activities for Balanced Listening Instruction

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

   This webinar will introduce activities to develop students' listening skills in all of these areas; these activities can make your listening instruction both easier and more effective.

5. Using Comics in the English Language Classroom

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

   This webinar demonstrates the universality of comics for any language classroom, showing how multi-skill comic activities can be used with students of all ages and ability levels.

6. Lesson Planning 101: Mapping Activities for a Clear Path to Learning

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

   This webinar teaches participants to create "road map" classroom activities.

7. Perspectives on Professional Growth: A Study on the Diaries of Undergraduate ELT Students

   In: English Teaching Forum 2001, Volume 39, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article reports on the author's observations of undergraduate ELT students who kept diaries about their professional development during their teaching practicum. The author analyzed these diaries at two stages and categorized the entries into two categories: a concern for the needs of the children of the information age, and a desire for self-improvement and professional growth. The author decided to develop lessons on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) into future semesters of the course based on the student diaries.

8. Teaching Today's Learners: Oral Error Correction and Writing Effective Assessments

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

   This webinar "Teaching Today's Learners: Oral Error Correction and Writing Effective Assessments" gives practical tips and strategies how and when to correct oral errors.

9. Discovering Grammar with Consciousness-Raising Tasks

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

   Introduces consciousness-raising task (CR tasks), which encourage students to notice characteristics and patterns related to form, meaning, and/or use while actively exploring the target grammar feature.

10. Empowering Students to Solve Local Problems: Adapting Materials with Service Learning

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

    This session, "Empowering Students to Solve Local Problems: Adapting Materials with Service Learning," introduces participants to the concept of Service Learning as a teaching strategy that promotes meaningful experiential learning through community service and reflective classroom activities.

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