Description: This comprehensive anthology provides an overview of current approaches, issues, and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. Containing a broad collection of articles published primarily in the last decade, it illustrates the complexity underlying many of the practical planning and instructional activities involved in teaching English. These activities include teaching English at elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels, teacher training, language testing, curriculum and materials development, the use of computers and other technology in teaching, as well as research on different aspects of second-language learning. Organized into 16 sections, the book contains 41 articles by well-known teacher trainers and researchers. Also included are two sets of discussion questions--a pre-reading background set and a post-reading reflection set. The anthology serves as an important resource for researchers, M.A. TESOL students, and teachers wishing to design a basic course in methodology.
Table of Contents Part I. Approaches to Teaching: 1. English language teaching in the post-methods era: towards better diagnosis, treatment, and assessment, H. Douglas Brown
2. Theories of teaching in language teaching, Jack C. Richards
Part II. Lesson Planning and Classroom Management: 3. Lesson planning, Thomas S. C. Farrell
4. Classroom management, Marilyn Lewis
Part III. Classroom Dynamics: 5. Implementing cooperative learning, George M. Jacobs and Stephen Hall
6. Mixed level teaching: tiered tasks and bias tasks, Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter
Part IV. Syllabus Design and Instructional Materials: 7. The ELT curriculum: a flexible model for a changing world, Denise Finney
8. The role of materials in the language classroom: finding the balance, Jane Crawford
Part V. Task and Project Work: 9. Implementing task-based language teaching, David Beglar and Alan Hunt
10. Project work: a means to promote language and content, Fredricka L. Stoller
Part VI. Learning Strategies: 11. Language learning strategies in a nutshell: update and ESL suggestions, Rebecca L. Oxford
12. Learner strategy training in the classroom: an action research study, David Nunan
Part VII. Teaching Grammar: 13. Seven bad reasons for teaching grammar...and two good ones, Michael Swan
14. Addressing the grammar-gap in task-work, Jack C. Richards
15. Grammar teaching--practice or consciousness-raising, Rod Ellis
Part VIII. Teaching Pronunciation: 16. Beyond listen and repeat : pronunciation teaching materials and theories of second language acquisition, Rodney H. Jones
17. Its not what you say but how you say it!, Julie Hebert
Part IX. Teaching speaking: 18. Factors to consider: developing adult EFL students speaking abilities, Kang Shumin
19. Conversational English: an interactive, collaborative and reflective approach, Wai King Tsang and Matilda Wong
20. Developing discussion skills in the ESL classroom, Christopher F. Green, Elsie R. Christopher and Jacqueline Lam
Part X. Teaching Listening: 21. Listening in language learning, David Nunan
22. The changing face of listening, John Field
23. Raising students awareness of the features of real-world listening input, Wendy Y.K. Lam
Part XI. Teaching Vocabulary: 24. Current research and practice in teaching vocabulary, Alan Hunt and David Beglar
25. Best practice in vocabulary teaching and learning, Paul Nation
Part XII. Teaching reading: 26. Dilemmas for the development of second language reading abilities, William Grabe
27. Teaching strategic reading, Joy Janzen
28. Extensive reading: why arent we all doing it? Willy A. Renandya and George M. Jacobs
Part XIII. Teaching Writing: 29. Ten steps in planning a writing course and training teachers of writing, Ann Raimes
30. The writing process and process writing, Anthony Seow
31. A genre-based approach to content writing instruction, Randi Reppen
32. Teaching students to self-edit, Dana Ferris
Part XIV. Assessment: 33. Alternative assessment: responses to commonly asked questions, Anna Huerta-Marcias
34. Non-traditional forms of assessment and response to student writing: a step towards learner autonomy, Andrea H. Penaflorida
35. English proficiency test: the oral component of a primary school, Ishbel Hingle and Viv Linington
Part XV. Technologies in the Classroom: 36. Video in the ELT classroom: the role of the teacher, Susan Stempleski
37. The internet for English teaching: guidelines for teachers, Mark Warschauer and P. Fawn Whittaker
38. What can the World Wide Web offer ESL teachers? Rong-Chang Li and Robert S. Hart
Part XVI. Professional Development: 39. The English teacher as professional, Penny Ur
40. Developing our professional competence: some reflections, Joanne Pettis
41. Research in your own classroom, Elizabeth Taylor.
