The Units of Language Acquisition

The Units of Language Acquisition details the way children acquire language by first accumulating formulaic units or prefabricated patterns.

50: Fifty Ways to Improve your Presentation Skills in English ...without Too Much Effort!

Do you want to feel more secure when delivering professional presentations in English? Do you want to know how to get your message across more clearly to a range of international audiences? Do you want some ideas on how to add impact to your presentations in order to influence more effectively?
If the answer to any of these questions is  Yes!then this is the book for you!
This is a self-help manual for those business people:
- who have English as their second language
- who use English to give presentations
- who want to develop their presentation skills.

The Book of Pronunciation: Proposals for a Practical Pedagogy (with Audio CD)

Teacher Development Series.

The Book of Pronunciation is a definitive account of the key role pronunciation plays in teaching and learning, providing a highly authoritative but hugely accessible overview of the essential elements of English pronunciation as well as a wide range of classroom practice.

The Book of Pronunciation is accompanied by a CD, which provides models for the teacher and practice for the learners.

This book is the definitive resource for language teachers: looking for ways to incorporate pronunciation into their teaching, wishing to expand their range of pronunciation activities, wanting their learners to use language confidently and intelligibly.

The Developing Teacher: Practical Activities for Professional DevelopmentTeacher Development Series.

The Developing Teacher has been awarded the 2009 Duke of Edinburgh/ESU Award for Best Entry for Teachers.

The Developing Teacher suggests that teachers themselves are the most powerful agents of change and development in their own professional career.

The Developing Teacher is ideal for teachers who wish to take control of their own development, for those people in positions of responsibility for teacher development, and for complementing courses in language teacher education.

The Developing Teacher contains three distinctive parts A, B and C which focus in turn on theory, practice and development:

 

The Company Words Keep - Lexical Chunks in Language TeachingTeacher Development Series.

"The Company Words Keep" is a practical and thought-provoking guide for language teachers, showing how the latest insights into "language chunks" can lead to learners acquiring natural and fluent English. Here is a new methodology based on the Lexical Approach, a practical theory of language, of learning - and of teaching. The authors have drawn on their considerable experiences to reflect both on the situation of many non-native teachers around the world who are not always sure which word partnerships are likely and unlikely as well addressing native speakers who still need point-of-need confidence in class and in the key terms involved in the teaching.