Questa serie offre approfondite intuizioni sugli aspetti cruciali dell'insegnamento delle lingue, concepita come guida pratica per gli educatori. Ogni volume approfondisce temi specifici essenziali per la pedagogia contemporanea. Funziona eccellentemente come risorsa per lo sviluppo professionale e come testo di riferimento per corsi di formazione e seminari. La collezione promuove metodologie innovative ed efficaci nell'insegnamento delle lingue straniere.
How Vocabulary Is Learned presents the major issues that relate to the teaching and learning of vocabulary. Written by leading voices in the field of second language acquisition, the book evaluates a wide range of practical activities designed to help boost students' vocabularylearning.
A practical guide to task-based teaching for ELT training courses and practising teachers
Task-based teaching focuses on creating engaging activities like discussions, problems, and games that promote the use of authentic language in learning. This approach has garnered significant interest among educators, prompting exploration into effective task design and implementation. The book delves into practical strategies for integrating these tasks into the classroom, aiming to enhance language acquisition and foster a more interactive learning environment.
How can you turn your teaching experience into practical knowledge that will make you a better teacher in the future? Using extracts from classroom language and published coursebooks as examples, From Experience to Knowledge in ELT shows you strategies and ideas that will work with your students and that will help you to develop your own personal teaching style.
Provides teachers with a comprehensive introduction to first and second language acquisition. The authors believe that by understanding research and theories on how languages are learned, teachers will be better able to judge the merits of different teachi
Includes a CD-ROM with Excel worksheets for hands-on practice, completed worksheets for you to check your answers, and video tutorials for each Excel worksheet Recommended for TESOL Masters and Diploma students, language teacher educators, teachers in charge of testing for their language programs, or who write their own tests
Whether you are a pre-service trainee, a practising teacher, or a teacher- trainer, Success in English Teaching is an invaluable source of insights and practical suggestions. The authors draw on their own experience as teacher trainers to help teachers to prepare for a wide range of teaching situations, including ones where classes are large and resources limited.
This book examines a variety of approaches from classrooms and research that are used for teaching reading, and explores teaching methods focused on strategies.
An overview of the issues surrounding the teaching of young learners combines up-to-date research with principles of classroom practice to discuss skills, vocabulary, grammar, adapting and designing materials, planning and assessment, and policy decisions.
Die Reihe wendet sich an Studierende, für die Englisch Bestandteil des Studiums ist - zum Erschließen fachwissenschaftlicher Texte und als Kommunikationssprache, etwa bei Praktika. Die Bände vermitteln grundlegende Fach- und Methodenkenntnisse sowie Überblickswissen. Dadurch eignen sie sich zum Nachschlagen, zur Orientierung, zum Festigen der Studieninhalte und als Repetitorien vor dem Examen.]
Understand why and how you can use technology to enhance learning in the language classroom.
Draws on research in a variety of fields and applies it to teaching practice Features topics of current concern, including defining the roles of teachers and learners, critical pedagogy, interactive learning, and using innovative teaching materials. Includes criteria for and advice on evaluating classroom activities, especially those provided in the published materials that most teachers typically use. Can be used as a reference text or handbook by individual teachers or as a sourcebook or class text by teacher trainers. Written mainly for practising teachers but can be used by new and inexperienced teachers to give a thorough introductory overview of ELT.
Gives background to the business learner's world and strategies for approaching the training task, focusing on the learner's professional knowledge and experience. This book is suitable for teachers, trainers, and course organizers in the field of Business English or considering a move into it.
Are you about to start a Master's degree where you will be carrying out research for the first time? Or do you refer to research in your work as a teacher, teacher trainer, or materials writer? However you are involved with research, this book will give you a clear and thorough introduction to all the main types of language learning research. schovat popis
English is the main language of international communication, and almost everyone wants to learn it. But which English should we teach, and how? In this book, Sandra Lee McKay challenges the cultural assumptions underlying much of the English teaching currently taking place. She looks at the implications of the spread of English as an international language for what we teach and how we teach it.
This book is intended for teachers of English.
What really happens when students try to communicate with each other in the classroom? What makes them succeed? Why do they sometimes fail? In this book, Tony Lynch uses classroom research and transcripts from real lessons to explain the process of classroom interaction. He shows how this can help teachers with assessing students' performance and designing communicative tasks that work.