Teachers often find that materials get between learners and learning for a variety of reasons. Because learning materials play a significant part in lessons, it is important they are fit for purpose. Mann and Copland provide principles and approaches for adapting material to suit a variety of contexts and show how teachers can work successfully with limited resources.
What theoretical perspectives, classroom approaches, and types of activities will result in lessons that are both enjoyable and beneficial to young learners? Teaching English to Young Learners provides specific tasks, strategies, and activities to show you how to establish the kind of reflective teaching that helps your students develop fluency and accuracy in the English language.
When students are motivated, they are more confident and successful in their learning. But what is at the heart of a motivated learner? This book discusses the five elements of motivation--the teacher, teaching methodology, the text, the task, and the test--and explores how to use these "5 Ts" to impact student motivation.
Why do students feel that mastering academic English is difficult? Is it really so different from other types of English? The authors present academic English as a particular type of English that is not necessarily better, fancier, or harder, rather, it is simply a different kind of English that is usually learned in scholastic settings after general English has been acquired.
This inspiring and diverse collection of voices from the field in ESL and EFL contexts personalizes the issues TESOL educators face and serves as a resource for those wanting to address social injustices in their individual TESOL contexts. This book will help educators identify the needs of other students and the areas of privilege represented in the ELT world, where more advocacy work is needed.
Focuses on the challenges faced by English teachers for whom English is a second (or even third or fourth) language. Four themes receive special emphasis: communicative language teaching, proficiency, language learning, and practicality.
The benefits and advantages of classroom practices incorporating unity-in-diversity and diversity-in-unity are what Multilevel and Diverse Classrooms is all about. Chapters in the volume approach multilevelness from a holistic and humanistic perspective by considering diversity not only in language skills and proficiencies, but also in learning styles, purposes, and contexts.
This newest volume in the ELT in Context series by Nicole Takeda is about teaching English at a nongovernmental organization in Cambodia and is unique in its details and documentation. It presents firsthand accounts of the considerable challenges and difficulties facing English language teachers working with learners in poverty, on between $1 and $2 US dollars per day.
Language teachers have long been aware of the devastating effect of learners' grammatically correct, yet situationally inappropriate spoken or written communication. This volume addresses how to raise learner awareness of pragmatic gaffs through research-based, field-tested activities. Teachers are given vital support through worksheets, audio files, transcripts, and answer keys.
Pedagogy - not technology - drives effective online instruction. The authors of Pedagogy and Practice for Online English Language Teacher Education discuss foundational theories of pedagogy and link those theories with their own practices in online courses for language teacher education and language teaching.
Are we doing all that we can to help prepare our learners for future study in the United States?" Dr. Orlando poses that question and more in this essential volume of the ELT in Context series. Drawing on more than 50 works published over the span of more than 20 years, she sheds light on the ongoing challenges that face intensive English programs (IEPs) in U.S. universities, including the marginalization of IEPs in the university setting, as ...
In this newly updated third edition, learn step-by-step how to effectively teach English abroad. Gain valuable tips and resources for teaching in an unfamiliar educational system, working with students of varying ages and skill levels, and adapting to life in a different culture.
