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Lessons for english language teaching from “Clickbait”

11 December 2020 Christien Lee Academic Skills, Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

Top doctor reveals the 3 worst things most people eat every day 12 unbelievable pet rescue stories. You’ll cry when you read #9! We’ve all seen online links like these, often accompanied by an eye-catching photo of an attractive person, a load of cash, a cute animal, or perhaps something

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Engage, Build, Consolidate: An Effective Framework for Lesson Planning

11 November 2020 Andre Hedlund Teaching Teens One comment

Lesson planning is key when we aim at attaining positive student learning outcomes. However, teachers’ task of anticipating different situations while considering every student’s individual needs, the resources available in the classroom or online, as well as how to help students stay on task is an enormous challenge. In this

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What if? Motivating students in all classrooms with critical incidents

23 October 2020 Chia Suan Chong Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens Leave a comment

It can be tricky motivating learners even in a face-to-face classroom. Each learner has their own interests, their own personalities, their own reasons for being in class, and sometimes, finding an activity that gets everyone engaged and talking can be difficult. This problem is compounded in a virtual classroom where

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Using an Image as a Springboard for online work: Imaginary Instruments

3 August 2020 Katherine Bilsborough Young Learners One comment

As many teachers around the world have moved from face to face teaching to online teaching, we’ve decided to change the focus of these blog posts too. For the next few months Look author Katherine Bilsborough will be sharing ideas of how to use an image as a springboard for

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Exploiting video for authentic English

26 May 2020 John Hughes Teaching Adults, Teaching Teens 2 comments

So far in this series of articles on using video in the classroom, I’ve focused on ways to plan a video lesson and how to make the activities more collaborative. In this post, I’d like to look at the impact authentic video can have on a lesson when we teach

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Empowering Teenagers to be the Change the World Needs

22 November 2019 Luciana Fernández Teaching Teens 7 comments

Teenagers Today According to Diana Divecha, Ph. D. in developmental psychology, “every generation of teens is shaped by the social, political, and economic events of their time”. So the first question to ask ourselves, as educators of this generation, is: What events are shaping the current generation of teens? Our

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Encouraging Learner Autonomy

21 November 2019 Alex Warren Young Learners 3 comments

In this blog, Alex Warren looks at how we can help encourage our learners to take more responsibility for their own learning and be more autonomous. Mention the concept of learner autonomy and these words might spring to mind – a myth, magic, a miracle, impossible. How can we actually

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Teens Making an Impact: Elliot Sarrey, Brooke Martin & Robert Saunt

14 November 2019 National Geographic Learning Teaching Teens One comment

Teens Making an Impact Many teenagers today are concerned about their places in the world and their roles as global citizens. They’re developing a sense of social responsibility. They’re also developing a personal sense of values and looking for role models. This month, we’re pulling from our programs for teenagers

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Developing Learner Agency in Your Classroom

7 November 2019 Christien Lee Teaching Adults One comment

Developing learner agency is not a controversial idea. However, because there are many possible definitions of and approaches to learner agency, understanding exactly how to do that may not be obvious. This blog post will offer a simple but effective framework for promoting learner agency in the language teaching classroom.

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Teens Making An Impact: Melati and Isabel Wijsen

5 November 2019 National Geographic Learning Teaching Teens Leave a comment

Teens Making an Impact Many teenagers today are concerned about their places in the world and their roles as global citizens. They’re developing a sense of social responsibility. They’re also developing a personal sense of values and looking for role models. This month, we’re pulling from our programs for teenagers

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