Teaching Grammar in Context

With Teaching Grammar in Context, Weaver extends her philosophy by offering teachers a rationale and practical ideas for teaching grammar not in isolation but in the context of writing. Teaching Grammar in Context fills a long-standing gap in the literature on teaching writing. It will prove invaluable to all practicing and preservice teachers, especially those at the middle and high school levels, were grammar is taught most intensively.

 

Teaching and Learning Languages

Selected readings from Mosaic edited by Anthony Mollica
Selected from the first five volumes of Mosaic, these fifty-one practical and theoretical chapters, written by distinguished North American second-language scholars, are invaluable professional readings for both beginning and seasoned teachers.

The ELT Curriculum: Design, Innovation and Mangement

ELT teachers today are faced with a bewildering choice of aims, methods and materials. How can they design or choose language curricula best suited to their learners' needs? What options are open to them in designing and introducing new Syllabuses and methods? In answering these questions, the author begins by reviewing historically the development of ideas on language teaching and language curriculum.

 

English Language Teacher's Handbook: How to Teach Large Classes with Few Resources

Provides a highly practical and accessible guide to teaching English to students for whom English is not their first language. It is a comprehensive guide to lesson planning and testing, covering all four modes of language (reading, listening, talking and writing), and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary.

Issues in English Teaching (Issues in Subject Teaching)

Issues in English Teaching invites primary and secondary teachers of English to engage in debates about key issues in subject teaching.
The issues discussed include:
*the increasingly centralised control of the curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy in the school teaching of English in England and Wales as a result of initiatives such as the National Literacy Strategy
*new technologies which are transforming pupils' lived experience of literacy or literacies
*the accelerating globalisation of English and the independence of other versions of English from English Standard English.