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Flora Debora Floris and colleagues use chatbots in language teaching.

Marion E. Mager describes a new tool she has been using with her students to improve their written English in Get them involved: an effective assessment tool

Four teachers share their experience of using VR with a class of young learners. The course allows the learners to fully engage with the characters, context and content.

A low-prep storytelling lesson plan which is popular with students and three particularly fun and challenging ways to work with vocabulary.

Tanja Jankovič explores what mindfulness is, and how we might use it with young learners as a classroom management tool to promote harmony and to teach the children a useful life skill.

A group of teachers offer insights into slide design which is of use at all levels and in all subjects.

Instead of using web-based video conferencing, this teacher chose a more flexible use of email and WhatsApp for one of her classes. She used the class for an interesting piece of classroom research.

Barbara Muszyńska and Cristina A Huertas-Abril report on their Covid-19 lockdown project, involving online communication between Polish and Spanish university students.

The article looks at four principles of the Emotional Affordances (EA) framework; positivity, self-disclosure, safety and affinity.

Katarzyna Wiącek reminds us of ten useful tips.

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETp readers. Try them out for yourself – and then send us your own contribution. All contributors to It Works In Practice in this issue of ETp receive a free copy of MindGame, the CD-ROM by Mario Rinvolucri and Clarity Language Consultants.

Slobodan Kelečević suggests four non-teaching apps that teachers can use to disseminate information, organise their work and their timetables and provide a space for students to write.

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETp readers.

Do all your students know what subject they want to go on to study in higher education? How easy is it to get your Academic English up to the appropriate level? Read this study of two contrasting cohorts.