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1. Prepositions of Place

   In: Teacher's Corner: Prepositions Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, use everyday objects to get students writing sentences using prepositions.

2. Creating Cartoons: A Learner-Centered Approach to Comprehending Texts

   In: English Teaching Forum 2017, Volume 55, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This article carefully describes the technique of having learners create cartoons based on a reading passage to explore their understanding of the passage and to help teachers reflect on what the learners comprehended.

3. Teaching Techniques: Physical Vocabulary in the Beginner-Level Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   This activity allows students to create their own physical interpretation of a vocabulary word, which increases their ability to remember it (Asher 1996).

4. My Classroom: Indonesia

   In: English Teaching Forum 2015, Volume 53, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   Alief Noor Farida is a junior lecturer at Indonesia’s Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES). Now teaching her fourth semester and an alumna of the English Education program at UNNES, Ms. Farida is an especially motivated and dedicated educator. She teaches 18 hours per week, specializing in grammar and writing-skills courses. The Intensive Course she teaches, focusing on reading, writing, speaking, and grammar skills, serves as a foundation for incoming English Department students.

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

   Format(s): Text

   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).

6. Using a Proofreading Checklist

   In: Teacher's Corner: Teaching Academic Writing Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner, we share a simple activity that students lead and conduct in the final days before submitting an essay. The activity is aimed at helping students recognize errors before they submit their writing.

7. 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.

8. The President's Schedule: The President will be attending a meeting

   In: Teacher's Corner: Progressive Form Format(s): Text

   In this week’s Teacher’s Corner activity, students practice the future progressive while asking and answering questions regarding a president’s upcoming visit to their country.

9. Teacher's Corner: Making Grammar Fun

   Format(s): Text

   This month’s Teacher’s Corner looks at ways to make grammar fun by teaching it in context.

10. The Pragmatics of Greetings: Teaching Speech Acts in the EFL Classroom

    In: English Teaching Forum 2016, Volume 54, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    This article will provide background information on this important speech act and instructional strategies for use in the classroom to help teachers equip their students with a critical component to successful interactions.

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