Spotlight Secondary is a course for learners of the English language at CEF A1-A2 level. The course combines active English learning with a variety of lively topics presented in themed modules.
Research on Second Language Teacher Education: A Sociocultural Perspective on Professional Development (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the epistemological underpinnings of a sociocultural perspective on human learning and addresses in detail what this perspective has to offer the field of second language teacher education. Captured through five changing points of view, it argues that a sociocultural perspective on human learning changes the way we think about how teachers learn to teach, how teachers think about language, how teachers teach second languages, the broader social, cultural, and historical macro-structures that are ever present and ever changing in the second language teaching profession, and what constitutes second language teacher professional development.
Critical Theory and the English Teacher: Transforming the Subject (Teaching Secondary English)In this radical exploration, Nick Peim, himself a practising English teacher, shows how teachers can use critical theory to bring students' own experience back into the subject. The author explains how the insights of discourse theory, psychoanalysis, semiotics and deconstruction can be used on the material of modern culture as well as on and in oral work. The book is written in a style which even those with no background in critical theory will find approachable, and arguments are backed up with practical classroom examples.
The Most Frequent English Words, Phrases & Expressions is a list of 5325 words arranged alphabetically so that they can be easily found and marked in any dictionary.This list is compiled by M.Saddam Hossain after comparing and consulting the BNC, the Brown Corpus, the GSL, the UWL, the AWL and almost every Learners' Dictionary of the market and hundreds of sites in the Internet.
Tested among students and found to cover almost 94% of all spoken and written texts.
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Polish monthly magazine for the teachers of English. The issues feature following themes: book reviews, interviews with linguists, teaching in junior high school, vocabulary functions, teacher training, methods of teaching and approaches, British culture, geography of Britain, English modern culture, problems of learners, school material revision.
