This series delves into the intricacies of pedagogy and linguistics, designed to deepen the professional knowledge of language educators. Each volume offers valuable insights and practical strategies aimed at enhancing their teaching skills. It focuses on how theoretical understanding can directly inform classroom effectiveness. This is an essential guide for anyone dedicated to refining the art of language instruction.
Demonstrates the principles involved in planning and designing an effective syllabus. This book examines important concepts, such as needs analysis, goal-setting, and content specification, and serves as a useful introduction for teachers who want to gain an understanding of syllabus design in order to modify the syllabuses with which they work.
The basic principles and terminology of this important, but sometimes neglected, area are explained in this book. Pronunciation helps teachers to understand and evaluate the materials available to them, and so approach the teaching of pronunciation with more confidence. The book includes over 120 classroom projects which readers can use to develop their pronunciation teaching.
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.
How do learners learn to speak a foreign language? What different approaches have been developed to teach this important skill? Speaking deals with both these questions, providing clear explanations of recent research and developments in methodology. In the final section the author suggests practical ways in which teachers can gain a better understanding of the role of oral classroom activities.
Published 1997. Writing introduces both traditional and more recent approaches to the teaching of this skill and shows how current teaching materials put these approaches into practice. The reader is encouraged to think about the reasons for teaching writing, and to see how many different types of writing - factual or creative, public or personal, business or academic - can be brought into the language classroom.
Provides the practising language teacher with an overview of Grammar. This book describes the nature of grammar, its role in language learning and language use, and how it can be taught effectively. It invites readers to apply these ideas in their own teaching.
An examination of the teaching of listening, discussing what language comprehension involves and the views of listening which underlie commercial materials. The work includes the author's recent work in comprehension task design and aims to guide teachers in their own research tasks.