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15 August 2017 Alex Warren 21st Century Learners, Effective English, Games, Motivating Learners, Reading, Teens, Young Learners Leave a comment

Nowadays most course books come with the reading texts available in Word format either online or on the teacher’s resource CD-ROM. These are a great resource, but from my experience teachers rarely take advantage of these, which is a shame as there’s so much you can do with them and,

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    • 8 Tactics for using Technology in the Classroom
    • Voices from the Field: Songs in the ELT Classroom
    • Flipped Learning in the ELT Classroom
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  • 1 Andrew Walkley
    • Repetition and word lists
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  • 1 Anna Hasper
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  • 1 Christien Lee
    • A Critical Look at Critical Thinking
  • 1 Daniel Barber
    • Interview: Dan Barber on Why to Use TED Talks in your ELT Classroom
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    • Voices: Life as Lived in China
    • Life around the World Contest Continues
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  • 1 Elaine Boyd
    • Four classroom assessment activities for young learners
    • Preparing Young Learners for Exam Success: Part Two
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  • 1 Gabby Salazar
    • How to Bring Nature Journaling into your Classroom
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  • 1 Helen Stephenson
    • Motivation in your classroom: what’s in it for me?
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  • 1 Hugh Dellar
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  • 1 Jodi Crandall
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  • 1 John Hughes
    • Personalizing Culture
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  • 1 Katherine Bilsborough
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    • Making Learning last: repetition, variation and rehearsal
    • Making learning last: emotion, personalization and the unexpected
    • Making Learning Last: Stories and imagery
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    • Three New Literacies for Today’s Classroom
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    • Interview: Tom Fast’s Guiding Principles for Teaching English
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