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1. The Power of the Picture Book

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The author shares techniques for using picture books—starting with the cover and moving on through the illustrations and text—to engage children and get them thinking and talking.

2. My Classroom: Libya

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   Learn how Tamadar Issa, an author and a “creative educator,” uses her unique communication skills and her imagination to inspire the students she teaches in Tripoli.

3. Using Identity to Introduce ICC Skills in the EFL Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The authors describe a detailed, step-by-step procedure to help students analyze the concept of identity—with the use of “identity wheels” and a knowledge-skills-attitudes framework—and apply their understanding to develop intercultural communicative competence

4. The Lighter Side: Words without Rhymes

   In: English Teaching Forum 2020, Volume 58, Number 4 Format(s): Text

   The answers in this puzzle are words that have no rhymes in English. Can you find them all?

5. Creating Community Online

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Video

   This session, "Creating Community Online," explored strategies for building community in the online English language classroom.

6. Tips and Activities for Creating a Communicative EFL Classroom Using Online Meeting Software

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): Text, Video, Website

   This session, "Tips and Activities for Creating a Communicative EFL Classroom Using Online Meeting Software," introduced several communicative EFL activities for instructional sessions conducted via video-based online meeting software.

7. Unleashing Your True Teaching Power: Interaction in Online Learning Environments

   In: American English Webinars Format(s): E-book, MP3, Text, Video, Website

   This session, "Unleashing Your True Teaching Power: Interaction in Online Learning Environments," demonstrates how to engage learners in online environments by transforming traditional classroom tools.

8. English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 1

   Format(s): Text

   This issue offers advice for accommodating students with learning disabilities, helping learners visualize texts, and using movie dubbing to aid students’ pronunciation, along with tips for understanding fast speech, creating interesting multiple-choice questions, teaching narrative elements … and much more.

9. Accommodating Learning Disabilities in the English Language Classroom

   In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 1 Format(s): Text

   The authors discuss the complexity of identifying learning disabilities in the English language classroom, then offer four methods of instruction to support students with learning disabilities, with clear descriptions of effective strategies, and provide an extensive list of useful resources.

10. Reading Eyes Wide Shut: Visualization, Language Learners, and Texts

    In: English Teaching Forum 2021, Volume 59, Number 1 Format(s): Text

    Using an excerpt from a Jack London story as an anchor text, the authors describe five strategies designed to help students “see” what they are reading; the visualization strategies can “promote active engagement [with the text] both for enjoyment and for learning.”

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