The Language And Thought Of The Child

Jean Piaget breaks startling new ground by showing us how a childs grasp of concepts develops as inevitably as his bones. - The Observer

Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction

The communicative approach is changing the face of foreign language teaching. This book provides an introduction to communicative language teaching for practising classroom teachers. The author gives a single coherent account of the basic communicative ideas, emphasizing those aspects most important in the classroom so that teachers can integrate the new ideas into their own familiar methods. He stresses that a knowledge of grammar remains essential for effective communication.

This one-stop reference source includes: essays written by young adult experts; an introductory chapter for each list explaining the selection criteria; lists of the honored titles including brief annotations, publisher information, and subject/thematic descriptions; and, a chapter on programming and display ideas. Make choosing titles for teens fun and quick and easy with this one of a kind resource!

Assessment (Handbooks for the English classroom)

Dealing with assessment, this is one of a series of practical guides for teachers which examine pedagogical areas at the centre of ELT debate. Teachers are provided with ideas designed to help them develop their own material and tailor it to their individual needs.

Language Acquisition and Language Socialization: Ecological Perspectives (Advances in Applied Linguistics Series)

This is an outstanding collection of papers by top scholars in a range of disciplines who shed stimulating, complementary insights into the social, cognitive and semiotic frameworks that shape both the acquisition of language, and the constitution of social actors through that process.