James Venema

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Negotiation of meaning: encouraging students to speak up

2020-03-25

James Venema encourages his Japanese students to respond promptly to questions, giving them the language and impetus to do so – and not accepting silence as a valid response.

Academic writing through debate

2014-06-27

The benefits of debate as an academic writing task including some classroom activities that should prove useful in classes focused on debate, by James Venema.

For and against

2014-02-13

James Venema argues the case for debating in class.

Active word power

2013-09-04

James Venema explains how to use vocabulary notebooks efficiently.

Fables and fairytales

2013-05-15

James Venema suggests we surprise ourselves and our students with some very special stories.