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		<title>Engage Students in Discussion With the Right Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Asking questions happens to be one of my favorite things to do. I used to run a discussion club in Kazakhstan where students could just come and chat about some topic or another. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. We&#8217;ve all done it: pressed play on a movie so we don&#8217;t have to do a real lesson! But using videos in class can be very productive for teaching spoken language! [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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					<description><![CDATA[This post comes from a chapter in a book by Penny Ur or Tessa Woodward about asking questions in the classroom. It&#8217;s been a while since I read it, but the essence was that too [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I&#8217;ve had students tell me that they don&#8217;t know how to be creative. They think creativity is a talent that you are born with or not. While it&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of presentations on pragmatics recently and thinking about how to teach students real-world communication skills in English. The problem is that in the classroom we often communicate at a very [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 17:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best classroom activities come out of the simplest things. Case in point, these Social-Emotional Learning prompts for ESL students created by Teresa X. Nguyen and illustrated by Tyler Hoang and Nathaniel Cayanan. Each [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently discovered these wonderful communication-fail memes from PunHubOnline! Beyond being peak comedy for language lovers, these memes highlight a really important point: communication happens far beyond grammar and vocabulary. Pragmatics, the hidden rules that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the spring, I had the great pleasure of seeing a bit of David Crystal talk at the 2020 Digital Hay Festival. (By the way, if anyone is looking to for a great Christmas present, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Warmers for Online Classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Community building is important in any classroom, but warmers for online class are particularly important as students feel physically distanced from each other. Many teachers who were forced online by the COVID-19 pandemic learned that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Set Your Roleplay to Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Looking for a way to make your roleplays more engaging and also help students explore communication tools more effectively? Try music. We all know the power of music to set a mood. Television shows and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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