This course provides a comprehensive basic introduction to teaching languages, for use in pre-service or early experience settings. It can be used by groups of teachers working with a trainer, or as a self-study resource. It consists of modules on key topics, arranged into sections covering: The Teaching Process, Teaching the Language, Course Content, Lessons, and Learner Differences. Each module presents practical and theoretical aspects of the topic, with tasks. Notes for the trainer with stimulating insights from the author's personal experience complete the course.
The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research (Second Language Acquisition Research Series)
The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research aims to answer key questions about the validity and uses of think-alouds, verbal reports completed by research participants while they perform a task. It offers an overview of how think-alouds have been used in language research and presents a quantitative meta-analysis of findings from studies involving verbal tasks and think-alouds.
The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching
A comprehensive collection, the Handbook focuses on the three key areas of reading, writing, and language, and issues that cut across them. The international emphasis of all the chapters is extended by a final section that looks directly at different countries and continents.
See the world of English Adventure come alive! The videos to accompany the series recycle and extend the language learned in the Pupil’s Books in a fun and entertaining way.The Videos for English Adventure Starter A and B contain four episodes.
Each episode has three parts:
Fun Time-Presenters Ted and Lucy introduce fun songs and games
Film Time-A short animation featuring Disney characters that children know and love
The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language
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The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language
This book examines the ways in which English is conceptualised as a global language in Japan, and considers how the resultant language ideologies - drawn in part from universal discourses; in part from context-specific trends in social history - inform the relationships that people in Japan have towards the language.
