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1. Teacher's Corner: Media Literacy

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   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we present a series of activities that help to develop students’ critical thinking and media literacy skills. This week, learn how to help students think about commonly used news sources and characteristics of high-quality news.

2. Teacher's Corner – Teaching with Authentic Materials

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   This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we will discuss different types of authentic materials and the benefits and challenges of using them.

3. Teacher's Corner: Conditionals

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   This month we’ll take a closer look at some of the ways conditionals function and how we can provide students meaningful (and fun!) ways to practice using these grammatical forms.

4. Teacher's Corner: Listening

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   These “Teacher’s Corner” activities are inspired by a framework for thinking about listening instruction presented in Beth Sheppard’s 2014 “Practical Activities for Balanced Listening Instruction” webinar, part of the Shaping the Way We Teach English webinar series.

5. Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form

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   This month in the Teacher’s Corner, we will examine the progressive (continuous) verb form. In this week’s activity, students practice the present progressive while asking for directions.

6. Teacher's Corner: Engaging English Language Learners with New Forms of Literacy

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   In the 21st century, our students have to know how to read and communicate using more than just words on paper or a computer screen. Communication takes many forms, and our classroom teaching will benefit by bringing in these new forms of communication. April’s Teacher’s Corner looks at several new literacies: instant messaging, comics and graphic novels, short-form videos, and podcasting. We explore what these forms are and how we can use them in the classroom to help students develop their language skills and to solve problems in an ever-changing world of communication.

7. Teacher's Corner: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

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   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we’ll discuss how to incorporate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) content into your English language classroom.

8. Teacher's Corner: Service Learning in the Language Classroom

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   In this month’s Teacher’s Corner, we’ll examine ways that you can incorporate Service Learning strategies to get your students involved with experiential learning! During week 1, students will brainstorm community issues that they can help solve.

9. Teacher's Corner: Teaching Grammar for Communicative Competence

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   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we look at how to teach grammar in ways that help students to build their communicative competence. A communicative grammar lesson gives students the opportunity to practice the target grammar item through specific communicative tasks and activities.This month’s article is filled with ideas and resources to help students use the language they are learning.

10. Teacher's Corner: Literacy Development for True Beginners

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    The term literacy refers generally to a person’s ability to read and write. (Though literacy is also used more broadly for describing critical knowledge and productive ability in other things, such as financial literacy, media literacy, and cultural literacy, in this Teacher’s Corner, we’ll refer to reading and writing skills).

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