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		<title>Teaching the Osage Indian Murders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 07:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post describes one of the real historical mysteries discussed in our latest book, History&#8217;s Mysteries. This book includes 40 unsolved mysteries from history. Students read a text, discuss and analyze, do research on their own, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alphabet Publishing&#8217;s Most Popular Posts  of 2021</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My most popular posts of 2021 feature Minecraft, Excel, drama, self-care, and classroom community. Sounds appropriate for 2021!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Halloween Activities for English Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. And it&#8217;s a great holiday to share with students. Some say it&#8217;s too scary or macabre to do Halloween activities in English class. But you can always find [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Accent Doesn&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hear it from students all the time. &#8220;I need to get rid of my accent.&#8221; Or &#8220;I need sound like a real British person&#8221; There&#8217;s a whole cottage industry of people &#8220;teaching&#8221; real native [&#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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		<title>How to do Social-Emotional Learning Prompts for ESL</title>
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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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		<title>What does &#8220;I was, like&#8230;&#8221; mean?</title>
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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>Embodied Mind: The Dancer and Dance and Grammar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How can we know the dancer from the dance?&#8221; Yeats famously wrote. And in the dance of human communication, the body plays a role. Language is more than word choice or grammar, and even more [&#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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