Professional Development

Experienced authors, experts in their field, keep you up to date with current thinking, share ideas you can use immediately in class, and help you reflect on different approaches to teaching.

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Technology Enhanced Language Learning

New

Connecting theory and practice

Aisha Walker and Goodith White

Understand why and how you can use technology to enhance learning in the language classroom.

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How Languages are Learned

Fourth Edition

New Edition

Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada

New 4th edition of Lightbown and Spada's prize-winning readable introduction to research in language acquisition

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Designing and Analyzing Language Tests

A hands-on introduction to language testing theory and practice.

Nathan Carr

Designing and Analyzing Tests with accompanying CD-ROM gives you a solid grounding in language assessment theory, practical guidance on developing and administering tests, and shows you how to use Excel for statistical analysis of procedures.

Language teachers often have to develop or choose tests or other assessments for their classes without any training. With this book and CD-ROM you learn how to choose from ready-made tests, or to adapt existing tests to better meet your needs. It gives you the tools you need to write your own tests and to analyze them.

The book is organized in two Parts: Part 1 focuses on language assessment theory, and guidance on developing and administering tests. Part 2 introduces the use of Excel for analyzing language test data.

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Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching

Second Edition

Practical, step-by-step guidance for ESL teachers, and thought-provoking questions to stimulate further exploration.

Diane Larsen-Freeman

This book provides a practical overview of the most important methods in the field. Readers are drawn into classrooms where various teaching methods and approaches are being used. They are encouraged to reflect on their own beliefs and to develop their own approach to language teaching.

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Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca

A user-friendly handbook which explores the benefits of an English as a Lingua Franca approach to pronunciation

Robin Walker

How could English as a Lingua Franca change your approach to teaching pronunciation?

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Bringing Creative Teaching into the Young Learner Classroom

Ideas and activities to personalize for your young learners

Lynne Cameron and Penny McKay

Personalize your English lessons with these activities and ideas for young learners

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Bringing Technology into the Classroom

A practical, non-technical guide to technology and how to use it in the classroom

Gordon Lewis

Don't know your blogs from your wikis? Bringing Technology into the Classroom will help you make educated choices in new technology and its implementation in the classroom.

Bringing Technology into the Classroom is the first title of the new Into the Classroom Series. It is a short, practical guide that explains how to use new computer technology, including interactive whiteboards, in the classroom. This title is intended for teachers of students 14-18 years old.

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From Experience to Knowledge in ELT

Strategies and ideas to help you develop your personal teaching style.

Julian Edge and Sue Garton

A guide to help teachers of English to develop teaching skills through drawing on practical classroom experience.

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Teaching Second Language Listening

A guide to evaluating, adapting, and creating tasks for listening in the language classroom.

Tony Lynch

A guide to adapting, creating, and evaluating listening tasks for ELT/ESL teachers

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Exploring Learner Language

A workbook and DVD pack that shows teachers how to analyse the language their ESL students use in the classroom.

Elaine Tarone and Bonnie Swierzbin

This innovative workbook and accompanying DVD provide a hands-on introduction to the study of language used by English learners. The DVD features six adult ESL learners and two native speakers of English completing individual and paired tasks that are linked to the book. Full transcripts included. Through an analysis at the case-study level, teachers can develop skills for exploratory practice.

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