Adrian Underhill, Peeter Mehisto, Maria Popova, Pete Sharma, Steve Walters, David Marsh, Carol Read, Maria Jesus Frigols, Phil Jakes, Patricia Jayne Moon...
A completely revised and updated edition of A Course in Language Teaching. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to English language teaching, and is suitable for teachers in a variety of educational settings, including compulsory ......Daugiau...
Documents the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002. As a context for how CELS was conceived, developed, constructed, validated and managed, the book ......Daugiau...
This book addresses practical teaching matters, including lesson planning, motivation, classroom management, as well as moral and political issues. This is a valuable source book for both teacher educators and classroom teachers. It covers a wide ......Daugiau...
Language testers have generally come to recognize the limitations of traditional statistical methods for validating oral language tests. They have begun to consider more innovative approaches to test validation, approaches that promise to illuminate......Daugiau...
Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works. This book asks: What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it ......Daugiau...
This practical guide can be used by teachers who wish to develop their professional expertise by investigating their own teaching in a systematic and organised way. It is also invaluable for teachers or trainee teachers who have to produce a ......Daugiau...
Activities for Very Young Learners is an essential resource for practising and trainee language teachers of three to seven-year-olds. This handbook contains over 90 easy-to-use activities for the very young learner classroom, and is ideal for ......Daugiau...
Advanced Skills is a must-have collection of photocopiable activities for advanced level students. Each activity includes one to three photocopiable pages for students and step-by-step teachers notes that allow busy teachers to slot these materials......Daugiau...
This volume brings together 11 TIRF-related research papers on the development and application of English language teaching and learning strategies on English language assessment. The papers are all written by recipients of The International ......Daugiau...
This book is aimed at all those responsible for advising teachers including teaching practice supervisors, mentors, INSET tutors, state education inspectors, directors of studies, and teachers working together as critical friends in informal ......Daugiau...
The affective domain and the emotional factors which influence language learning have been of interest in the field of language teaching for a number of years. By proposing a holistic approach to the learning process, this volume takes the position ......Daugiau...
Alan Maleys 50 Creative Activities is a collection of 50 classroom activities designed to promote creative language use. It is based on the premise that one of the major benefits of fostering creativity is the formation of enduring attitudes among ......Daugiau...
The Council of Europe released a preliminary version of the Manual for Relating Language Examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in 2003. A variety of institutions and individuals conducted case studies to ......Daugiau...
Alive to Language encourages teachers to question and extend their knowledge of how language works by examining the concepts of language-in-use and associated systems, language variety, change, and the interaction between language and power....Daugiau...
This volume takes a framework for validating tests that was developed in language testing, and applies it to an admissions test used for biomedical courses. The framework is used to consider validity in the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT). Each ......Daugiau...
An extensively revised and updated edition of this popular and accessible text. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Third edition is an extensive revision of this highly successful book. As in previous editions, both major and alternative ......Daugiau...
The methodology of English language education has been developed mainly in the English-speaking countries of the west and does not always fit the needs of the rest of the world. Appropriate Methodology and Social Context investigates this state of......Daugiau...
A renewed interest in grammar, from pedagogical and research perspectives, has created the need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners. This book presents a comprehensive framework of second language grammatical......Daugiau...
This volume charts the development of the Cambridge teaching qualifications and tests, and presents case studies demonstrating their impact. Described by teacher and teacher educator Scott Thornbury as a very welcome addition to the literature on ......Daugiau...
In 1998 and 1999, three of the largest providers of educational tests introduced computer-based versions of proficiency tests for English as a foreign language. Around the same time, many institutions began to offer Web-based tests for particular ......Daugiau...
