Bøger udgivet af Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Incorporated (TESOL)

What theoretical perspectives, classroom approaches, and types of activities will result in lessons that are both enjoyable and beneficial to young learners? Teaching English to Young Learners provides specific tasks, strategies, and activities to show you how to establish the kind of reflective teaching that helps your students develop fluency and accuracy in the English language.

Introduces a practical, fresh approach to classroom management which discusses 10 principles to ensure students remain at the heart of a structured, practical, and effective classroom. Quirke's methods follow the DREAM philosophy; Develop and delegate, Recruit and respect, Enhance and enjoy, Appraise and attend, and Mentor and motivate.

When students are motivated, they are more confident and successful in their learning. But what is at the heart of a motivated learner? This book discusses the five elements of motivation - the teacher, teaching methodology, the text, the task, and the test - and explores how to use these "5 Ts" to impact student motivation.

Why do students feel that mastering academic English is difficult? Is it really so different from other types of English? The authors present academic English as a particular type of English that is not necessarily better, fancier, or harder; rather, it is simply a different kind of English that is usually learned in scholastic settings after general English has been acquired.

Effective teaching begins with effective lesson planning. There are countless approaches to planning a lesson, and myriad factors to consider. Lesson Planning discusses the many approaches to lesson planning, addresses both theoretical and practical issues, and provides sample lesson plans and examples.

This revised volume brings together the best of the past with suggestions for the future and proves that teachers' imaginations continue to produce an interesting and varied range of ways to learn English within the broad guidelines of communicative language learning. It provides classroom teachers with a range of activities for all stages of the learning process.

Provides concrete ideas for engaging English learners in a range of intellectually rich tasks using a variety of text types. Each chapter provides "Reflection Questions" and "Action Plans" that are useful for practicing teachers, pre-service teachers, graduate students, academics, researchers, and professional development providers.

This collection of pedagogical practices supports ELLs with the content and language demands of the CCSSM. Each chapter highlights, via detailed classroom-based vignettes, specific pedagogical practices that teachers can use to support ELLs with the Standards for Mathematical Practices, and each concludes with questions for reflection andsuggestions for action plans.

Why do questions about idioms often leave us "tongue-tied"? This book takes a look at learning and teaching idioms from two perspectives. First is a survey of recent work on learning and teaching idioms from diverse perspectives in the linguistics and educational research literature. Second is a summary and critique of idiom textbooks and classroom practices from around the world.

Why assess? And what will I do with the results? This book examines classroom assessment through the lenses of three ESL teachers from across the US. The teachers face a number of challenges particular to their individual situations, and other challenges common to all US public school teachers.

Offers more than 80 ready-to-use activities for the business English classroom, specifically selected to represent the diversity that is driving innovation in business English teaching today. The contributors come from a variety of teaching contexts around the world, including tertiary education, corporate language training, and adult education.

Over 100 updated activities adapted for technology, low-resource classrooms, higher education, EFL, workplace literacy, adult immigrant education, K-12, or corporate training. Contributors have worked hard to make the steps easy to follow yet thorough in detail. "Caveats" and "Options" help teachers springboard new ideas, generating enthusiasm contagious to the whole classroom.

Provides an accessible introduction to the past, present, and future of EIL and an essential discussion about EIL pedagogy along with practical applications in methods and materials, culture and identity, and curriculum development. Reflective Break questions serve as guidelines for teachers' particular contexts, needs, and learners.

Explores approaches to teaching content-based instruction (CBI) in the English language classroom. The authors provide a comprehensive overview of how to teach CBI in an easy-to-follow guide that language teachers will find very practical for their own contexts. Topics covered include academic language development challenges and approaches, and interdisciplinary teacher collaboration.

How would a restaurant reviewer critique an essay? How would a martial arts master facilitate language practice? And how would a social activist promote critical thinking in the classroom? Answers to these questions and more can be found in chapters that offer practical tips from language teachers with extensive experience in other fields.

Demystifies the process of classroom research and gives teachers the confidence to get started, plan a project, collect data, publish findings, and then continue to enjoy the empowering energy of researching and learning. Open the book; begin your journey as a teacher-researcher.

This revised volume builds on the work by Paul Nation, one of the leading researchers and teachers in the field and represents the most recent developments, including technology, which lends value and ease to teaching vocabulary. The new edition also addresses the growing demand for preparing internaional students for academic and professional studies.

Native speakers of English tend to feel that connected speech is friendlier, more natural, more sympathetic, and more personal. Is there any reason why learners of English would prefer to be viewed as unfriendly, unnatural, unsympathetic, and impersonal? The great news is that such rules can (and should) be explained and taught.

This fascinating presentation of current research undoes numerous myths about how we most effectively learn new words in a second language. In reader-friendly text, the author details the successful approach of IBI vocabulary instruction, which emphasizes the presentation of target vocabulary as input early on and the incremental build-up of different aspects of vocabulary knowledge.

This second edition of New Ways in Teaching Reading bursts with new activities while retaining many of the features that made the first edition a best seller. The activities chosen for this edition are inspired by state-of-the art trends in teaching reading to English learners. This text is the best possible type of resource - by ESL and EFLreading teachers for ESL and EFL reading teachers.

A valuable resource for workplace language training providers as well as corporations and organisations wishing to employ such providers' services. It serves as a guide to promote quality and accountability among providers. This book also offers insights that enable providers and client organisations to develop realistic expectations for their workplace language training programmes.