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1. Are You Listening? (Backchannel Behaviors)

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson aims to promote awareness of short responses during conversations such as uh-huh and yeah known as backchannel behaviors; to increase awareness of cultural differences in backchannel behaviors; to allow students to practice behaviors that indicate active listening.

2. Talking on a Second Channel Using Parentheticals in English Discourse

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This lesson in Teaching Pragmatics aims to help students learn to pronounce a range of parentheticals appropriately.

3. Teaching Refusals in an EFL Setting

   In: Teaching Pragmatics Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   The goals of this lesson in Teaching Pragmatics are: raising awareness that misunderstandings can be caused by differences in performing speech acts between Japanese and Americans; making learners aware of what they know already and encouraging them to use their universal or transferable L1 pragmatic knowledge in L2 contexts; teaching the appropriate linguistic forms that are likely to be encountered in performing speech acts.

4. Chapter 7: Societal Dilemmas: Finding a Balance

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Civic Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on the tensions that exist between the values, needs, and interests of individuals and those of society at large.

5. Trace Effects Manual - Chapter 5

   In: Trace Effects Teacher's Manual Format(s): Text

   The manual provides information on teaching using online games and gives ideas for extending beyond the game using easy, interactive tasks for Chapter 5 of Trace Effects.

6. Observation Web: A Reflection Technique for Observation

   In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author shows how an observation web can be used to track the nature of activities during a lesson so they can be reflected on later. The observer uses a circular chart to mark if action in the classroom is linguistic, pragmatic, informative, teacher-centered, student-centered, individual, and/or interactive. This marking is done every five minutes. The author provides examples of traditionalist, innovative, and balanced teacher observations webs from real observations of Russian teachers. The best lessons came from teachers with more balanced webs.

7. Community Language Learning

   In: Language Teaching Methods Format(s): Text, Video

   This method of the Language Teaching Methods Video Series explores Community Language Learning.

8. Suggestopedia

   In: Language Teaching Methods Format(s): Text, Video

   This method of the Language Teaching Methods Video Series explores Suggestopedia.

9. Silent Way

   In: Language Teaching Methods Format(s): Text, Video

   This method of the Language Teaching Methods Video Series explores the Silent Way.

10. Communicative Approach

    In: Language Teaching Methods Format(s): Text, Video

    This method of the Language Teaching Methods Video Series explores the Communicative Approach.

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