English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2

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On the Cover: This year, as English Teaching Forum celebrates its 60th anniversary, the front covers of the four issues feature a unique “60” design, with covers of previous issues visible. The back cover of each issue also features previous covers; the selection includes the different designs and Forum logos that have greeted readers over the years. Feel free to look over the covers and see if you can find any of your favorites. You might also want to count the number of previous issues that are included on the back cover. Can you guess how many there are? 

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Cover of English Teaching Forum, Volume 60, Number 2

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The authors present specific steps and suggest sources that teachers can use to support students’ socio-emotional and language learning, with a particular focus on teaching in emergencies and responding to student crises.
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Mia Sasaki with Sara Levi
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60_2_pg10-17.pdf
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The article outlines how to find and adapt open educational resources (OERs) and presents a specific example of remixing OERs for the language classroom; the authors’ goal is to inspire other educators to create and adapt OERs and incorporate the materials into their own teaching contexts.
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Katie Mitchell Burrows; Kendra Staley; and Matthew Burrows
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This is the second of four articles looking at various aspects of Forum as the journal moves into its 60th year of publication. This article reviews decade-by-decade trends in English language teaching, as reflected in articles published in Forum.
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Jamila Barton
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60_2_pg30-38.pdf
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The author explains how to use “Big Paper” as the basis of a hands-on, collaborative, student-driven activity that helps learners focus on form, grammar, spelling, and punctuation in a unique and engaging approach to peer review.
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Aida Koçi McLeod
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60_2_pg24-29.pdf
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Malka N. Wickramasinghe, a teacher in Sri Lanka, shares a step-by-step guide to motivating young learners to collaborate on group tasks through the use of roles and creative, goal-oriented progress charts.
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Malka N. Wickramasinghe
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Learn how Irene Thanh Pham, who teaches in a dual language program at an elementary school in Seattle, helps her students learn both language (English and Vietnamese) and culture (primarily American and Vietnamese) while stressing identity awareness and educational equity.
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Nguyen Doan Hanh Nguyen
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60_2_pg39-43.pdf
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The author describes ways to bring a popular classroom technique to online environments, showing how to have students form virtual “lines” and then move from partner to partner via a sequence of changing breakout rooms.
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Beatriz Erazo
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60_2_pg20-23.pdf
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This guide is designed to enrich your reading of the articles in this issue. You may choose to read them on your own, taking notes or jotting down answers to the discussion questions below. Or you may use the guide to explore the articles with colleagues.
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60_2_pg18-19.pdf
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Many Forum article titles have two parts (as the name of this puzzle does). Your job in this puzzle is to match the first part of an article title with its second part. How many can you match correctly? (How many of the articles have you read?)
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