Save the date, and start thinking about submitting a proposal to present.

An update from the Adult Education SIG (Special Interest Group).

The ITBE Board is looking for a new Secretary and Chair of Exhibits/Advertising.

This article gives suggestions on how to study the topic of food banks with a class of Adult Education English Language Learners, including a field trip to the Central Illinois Food Bank.

Interviewing story characters is a very powerful multi-skills activity that employs student-generated interviews with characters from short stories or novels as a way to develop critical and creative thinking skills.

The Curriculum Infusion of Real Life Issues (aka CIRLI) is designed to help teachers understand the prevalence and importance of real-life issues that affect the lives of their students and integrate study of these issues into K-12 classes. The action research discussed in this paper was initiated to raise in-service teachers' awareness of real-life issues and ascertain their attitudes towards CIRLI.
 

The field of SLA should be more focused on learning than on teaching. This article addresses this topic as well as some common myths about language learning.

This article will explore an activity to teach vocabulary in context as a process with concrete subgoals. Breaking skills down into chunks increases student confidence and motivation by making the skills feel achievable.