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1. Community Content Based Instruction CCBI Manual (Peace Corps)

   Format(s): Text, Website

   A comprehensive manual on CCBI including history, examples, and lesson plans (PDF).

2. Chapter 5: Socially Responsible Business-Doing the Right Thing

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Business Ethics Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Business Ethics volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal discusses how businesses are held accountable to customers for goods and services that they sell.

3. 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

4. Working with CCBI: Volunteer Workbook (Peace Corps)

   Format(s): Text, Website

   Workbook on Community Content-Based Instruction (CCBI) to assist volunteers in their communities (PDF).

5. 20th-Century Humanism and 21st-Century Technology: A Match Made in Cyberspace

   In: English Teaching Forum 2013, Volume 51, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article discusses the origins of humanistic methodology and presents four humanistic classroom activities in traditional formats and in 21st-Century adaptations that use chat rooms, Nings, and social media.

6. Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Civic Education

   Format(s): Text

   The content in each volume of this e-journal is related to an aspect of building or maintaining a Civil Society - topics that affect students' personal or professional lives on a daily basis. The topic of this volume is civic education. Through the exploration of topics related to civic education, language teachers can help their students master English and simultaneously become more knowledgeable citizens of the world.

7. 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.

8. Chapter 2: Individual Freedoms: Freedom of Expression

   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 freedom of expression.

9. Chapter 3: Individual Freedoms: Freedom of the Press

   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 issues related to freedom of the press.

10. Chapter 5: Responsibilities of the Government

    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 duties that a government has to its citizens.

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