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1. Week 4 - Teaching: The Best Job in the World

   In: Teacher's Corner: Career Opportunities Format(s): Text

   This week, give students the chance to try out the best job in the world - teaching English! Students study an aspect of the English language and practice presenting.

2. Selecting Authentic Materials

   In: Teacher's Corner – Teaching with Authentic Materials Format(s): Text

   Authentic materials are an excellent resource in any teaching context. Sometimes educators work at institutions that provide lots of materials, while others may only provide a few or none at all.

3. Reported Speech - Trace Effects

   In: Teacher's Corner: Reported Speech Format(s): Text

   Many students like learning games, and you can use them for teaching English. This week’s Teacher’s Corner shows you how to use the game Trace Effects with your students to practice reported speech.

4. Week 2 - Technology: Coding – A Language For the Future

   In: Teacher's Corner: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, students practice the 21st-century skill of coding while developing reading and listening skills.

5. Developing Sight Word Recognition and Vocabulary

   In: Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners Format(s): Text

   Texts written in English are made up of many of the same words. These words are called high-frequency words because they appear so often. Sometimes these words can be tricky for beginners because their spelling patterns may not follow typical English phonics rules.

6. Using a Daily Message to Build Literacy Skills

   In: Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners Format(s): Text

   Do you students struggle with basic literacy skills? This week’s Teacher’s Corner presents anactivity that can help students apply phonics skills and develop sight word vocabulary.

7. Creating a Visually Rich Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Young Learners Format(s): Text

   This week in the Teacher’s Corner, we present ideas for using visual support in the English language classroom for young learners.

8. Good Teaching is Timeless

   In: English Teaching Forum 2012, Volume 50, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The author provides an introduction to three of the articles reprinted in this volume by framing them as what effective teachers have been doing through time and must continue to do.

9. English Teaching Forum 2009, Volume 47, Number 1

   Format(s): Text

   This issue features Hawaii, and a lesson plan guides teachers in exploring Hawaiian culture, and their own cultures, with their students. Other articles discuss integrating indigenous cultures into English language teaching, integrating critical thinking into language teaching, using story boxes in the classroom, and learning to hypothesize through Sudoku game play.

10. News & Notes

    In: English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    This entry tells readers that audio from vinyl records included in Forum over 20 years ago is now available free via the Internet at www.antimoon.com. The audio files includes shaggy dog jokes and a train story. There is also an announcement of a new journal, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, which started last year to keep EAP teachers and researchers up to date.

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