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Motivating High Level Learners
This text is designed to help the teacher who is looking for innovative ways to stimulate and challenge students at FCE level and above. With the emphasis on developing vocabulary and skills, it contains a wide range of ideas that are genuinely different. Old masters paintings, extracts from literature, and the learners' own experiences are just some of the prompts used to encourage students to explore language and to use it in new and exciting ways.
Language Teaching Methodology: Textbook for Teachers
Added by: littlecrabpig | Karma: 227.82 | Only for teachers, Linguistics | 16 March 2011
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Language Teaching Methodology: Textbook for Teachers (Language Teaching Methodology Series)
Comprising a general ELT methodology for ELT teachers, this work covers the development of listening, speaking, writing and reading skills, as well as grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. Also discussed are classroom management, materials development and learning strategies.
The Informed Writer - Using Sources in the Disciplines
Bazerman's The Informed Writer teaches students to formulate original arguments through fourteen different kinds of writing activities, ranging from brief summaries to full-scale research papers. Students are encouraged to explore the close connection between writing and reading, as well as the social context for their writing. Student writing examples and two complete research papers model both MLA and APA styles.
What happens – sociologically, linguistically, educationally, politically – when more than one language is in regular use in a community? How do speakers handle these languages simultaneously, and what influence does this language contact have on the languages involved? Although most people in the world use more than one language in everyday life, the approach to the study of language has usually been that monolingualism is the norm.