BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides) (Series)

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With time at a premium, teachers need concise books that offer research-based overviews of the skills that they need to know and how to implement them in the classroom. Brief Instructional Guides (BIGs) are written by practicing teachers and scholars to provide resources for professional development.

BIGs serve the purpose of engaging teachers at various stages in their professional, pedagogical development with new pedagogical theories and teaching methods. They present the latest research while remaining accessible in terms of language and approach. BIGs also offer practical activities, examples, and guides to implementing the latest teaching research in the classroom, course design, curriculum design, and lesson planning. Current topics for published BIGs range from looking at unique student populations and helping to integrate their needs into the classroom to a brief guide on using the flipped learning method in ESL courses.

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Translanguaging

What Every Teacher Needs to Know

Helping teachers leverage students’ multilingualism as a resource for learning

Corrective Feedback for Oral Language Errors

What Every Second Language Teacher Needs to Know

Translating research on corrective feedback for spoken language into clear, classroom-ready guidance

SOFLA®

The Synchronous Online Flipped Learning Approach

Bringing a pedagogical approach to teaching flipped classes online

Technology in the Language Classroom

What Every New ESL Teacher Needs to Know

Practical tips and advice for effectively leveraging technology in the language classroom

Beyond Plagiarism

Transforming Pedagogy to Help Students Write with Sources

How to teach students to properly cite sources rather than stumbling into plagiarism

Artificial Intelligence, Real Teaching

A Guide to AI in ELT

Equipping teachers with the strategies and habits of mind necessary to successfully navigate teaching in an AI-rich world

Theory and Practice

Bite-Sized Activities for Teaching Reading Skills

Provides theory-grounded activities and advice for adapting them to different reading levels