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Amanda Huensch, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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Demetria Li, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
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YOUTUBE FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN 7 STEPS
Rachel Stokes, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

Students can’t hit “replay” on real-life conversations, but they can on YouTube. Whether your students have access to thousands of English speakers every day or you are the only English speaker they typically encounter, YouTube can enhance your listening/speaking class. Follow these steps to create your own engaging YouTube lessons. Read More

CONCEPTUALISING AND CATEGORISING APPROACHES TO PRONUNCIATION INSTRUCTION
Sharif Alghazo, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

Second language pronunciation is an area that deserves extra attention from practitioners in the field. This brief article offers a subsumption of different approaches to teaching pronunciation to provide a framework for future studies to refer to when explicating pronunciation pedagogy. Read More

TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO MAKE PREDICTIONS TO IMPROVE THEIR LECTURE LISTENING COMPREHENSION
Shiao-Chen Tsai, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Teaching students to recall information with why and how questions after listening will help them summarize main ideas and prepare their speaking/writing responses for the TOEFL-iBT. This article explains how the two types of questions can help students make better predictions about the main idea and supporting examples. Read More

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