Teacher's Guide to Using Graded Readers

This guide offers E nglish language teachers practical advice on using graded readers both in and out of the classroom. It has been compiled by practising teachers and teacher trainers and draws on the ideas of teachers in a wide range of countries who are teaching in different types of schools and colleges.

Production-oriented and Comprehension-based Grammar Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom

The book addresses one of the key controversies in teaching foreign language grammar, which is the utility of production-oriented instruction, as exemplified in the PPP sequence, and comprehension-based teaching, as implemented in interpretation tasks and processing instruction. It provides a thorough overview of issues related to learning and teaching grammar, with a particular focus on input-oriented approaches, and reports the findings of four studies which sought to compare their effects with instruction based on different forms of output practice. The findings serve as a basis for guidelines on how the two options can be successfully combined in the classroom.

Planning for Learning: Collaborative Approaches to Lesson Design and Review

This book represents the next step in the critical role that lesson planning plays in effective teaching. The authors examine practices from many different areas of education in the U.S. and around the world to create an approach to lesson planning and evaluation that will work in today's diverse school settings. The heart of the book demonstrates collaborative lesson planning for teachers at particular career phases-pre-service, novice, and experienced.