Teaching English - Language Issues and Education Policies
Very different to the other ELT Document this volume focuses on the work of a single institution: the Modem Language Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). The book, published in 1984, introduces the Canadian context and the work of the Centre, and then provides articles on a range of research. Issues featured include minority language students: immersion education; learning strategies; and observation.
Teaching English - Humanistic approaches an empirical view
As part of its 75th anniversary celebrations, we (The British Council) are re-launching a selection of those publications online. Many of the messages and ideas are just as relevant today as they were when first published. We believe they are also useful historical sources through which colleagues can see how our profession has developed over the years.
Teaching English - English as an international language
English, with its wider geographical base, its 300 million native speakers, its utility as a toot of learning and its importance in science technology and commerce, is now incontestably the international language of the world. Whether it will be so a hundred years from now depends on political economic and cultural factors more than on the characteristics of the language itself: but one thing looks certain — English will not fragment as Latin did. The media will see to that.
This book, from 1986. provides a snapshot of developments in ESP teaching at university level during the 1970s and early 1980s. In his Preface. Christopher Brumfit challenged a recent claim that ESP had 'legitimised English teaching', suggesting rather that it had made English teaching more purposeful. The papers in this book include an extensive one on task-based learning and all are focused on practical solutions.
Teaching English - English as a Second Language in the United Kingdom
This is of course as much a key topic in the UK as it was in 1985 when this book was originally published. The book aimed to cover English teaching to 8ritish residents' and addresses teaching children in the school sector: teaching adults in education and in the workplace: and teacher trainhg among others. One chapter asks Can ESL teaching be racist?
