A History of English Language Teaching (Oxford Applied Linguistics)
This revised and updated history covers the Renaissance to the present day, covering all the important phases of the history of English language teaching from a global perspective.
Discourse analysis is the study of spoken and written language in its social and psychological context. This book explains the relevant theory, and applies it to classroom activities designed to improve students' discourse skills. The teacher is then shown how these activities may be further developed in specific teaching situations.
This is an introduction to linguistics, the study of human language. The author provides a succinct but lucid outline of the ways in which language has been defined, described, and explored, and guides readers towards further exploration of their own.
Short Stories - Ungekürzte Texte
Murder: the unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just an unfortunate accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? This collection contains a wide range of murder stories, from the astute detection of the famous Sherlock Holmes, to the chilling psychology of Ruth Rendell. This collection contains stories by Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Angela Noel, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Margery Allingham, and Patricia Highsmith.
What roles do teachers and learners play in classroom language learning, and what kinds of activities and materials bring them into the most effective partnership? This book has the aim of helping teachers to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning in their own classrooms. Teaching and learning as social activities. What is a role? Factors influencing teacher and learner roles. Teacher and learner roles in the classroom. Teaching tasks and teaching strategies. Teaching style. Instructional tasks, strategies, materials and resources. Language learning tasks and activities. Learning groups. The individual learner. Classroom processes. Investigating teacher and learner roles.
