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1. Maintaining Your Virtual Personal Learning Network

   In: Teacher's Corner: Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) Format(s): Text

   This week’s Teacher’s Corner addresses a few common concerns related to maintaining a large personal learning network.

2. Teaching Techniques: Beat the Clock

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   This original technique, “Beat the Clock,” encourages students to speak in English and increase their oral proficiency at the same time.

3. How Many Words is a Picture Worth?

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” indicates that a complex idea can be communicated by a single image.

4. 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.

5. Universal Design as a Tool to promote inclusivity in the Language Classroom

   In: Teacher's Corner: Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Format(s): Text

   This month in Teacher’s Corner, we talk about designing lessons and activities so that students of all abilities can participate and learn in ways that work best for them.

6. Teacher's Corner: Comic Books for Learning

   Format(s): Text

   Comic books are a pleasure to read, but they can also be a great resource in the English classroom!

7. Week 1 - Routines for Everyday Language

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Beginners Format(s): Text

   This week, learn to establish routines to help beginners feel comfortable right from the start.

8. Getting Students Into Impromptu Groups and Pairs for Collaborative Learning - Part 1

   In: Teacher's Corner: Classroom Management Format(s): Text

   Group and pair work provide students frequent opportunities to practice using English with a variety of people in a lower-stakes setting.

9. Fostering Student Motivation: Goal-Setting and Student Interest Questionnaires

   In: Teacher's Corner: Fostering Student Motivation Format(s): Text

   This week’s teaching tip illustrates how to use a beginning-of-course questionnaire activity to encourage students to think about motivation-related questions.

10. Teacher's Corner: Setting Up For Business English Success

    Format(s): Text

    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.

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