Vol. 4 Issue 34 – Article: ‘Teaching English As a Foreign Language With Social Responsibility’ by Larry M. Lynch

Are you conserving and recycling water? As EFL, ESL or foreign language teaching professionals we ultimately have a responsibility to our learners, our adopted communities and ourselves as a form of social responsibility. We can quite easily, quickly and responsibly incorporate global, regional and local social issues into our class sessions to provide our language learners with an outlet for their English as a foreign language or other foreign language communicative skills. Pollution, crime, the environment, global warming and terrorism are all available topics of concern regionally and locally worldwide. Take water conservation for example.

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Vol. 4 Issue 34 – Video: Teaching Speaking with Task-Based Learning

When students work on tasks in pairs or small groups, they use language at every step: planning, executing, and presenting. This demonstration shows students planning and describing their own Utopian societies.

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Vol. 4 Issue 34 – Webinar: ‘Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom’ Webinar, August 21 & 28

Oxford University Press is holding the 'Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom' webinar on 21st and 28th August 2012 at 08.00 - 09.00 and 21.00 - 22.00 (BST).

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