English for Academic Purposes e-book

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A comprehensive overview of EAP and how it is best taught and learnt in a variety of academic contexts

Edward de Chazal

A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research in the field of English for Academic Purposes, presenting typical and best practice, and providing practical suggestions for developing materials to promote both language and skills.

Focus On Assessment e-book

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Research-led guide helping teachers understand, design, implement, and evaluate language assessment

Eunice Eunhee Jang

Referencing classroom-based research and classroom vignettes,Focus on Assessment helps you to understand research evidence in language assessment for students aged 6-16. It develops your ability to design, implement, and critically evaluate language assessment.

Focus on Assessment recognizes the multiple roles teachers play in language assessment and the importance of teacher assessment competence. It explores key areas of teaching and assessment, such as ensuring a positive assessment experience, the importance of cognitively rich tasks that measure essential core language skills, and promoting learner autonomy.

Examples from real classroom practice and key research studies are an integral part of the book, with activities to help you relate research and theory on language assessment to your own teaching context.

Focus On Oral Interaction e-book

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Focus on Oral Interaction

Rhonda Oliver and Jenefer Philp

Referencing classroom-based research and classroom vignettes,Focus on Oral Interaction explores the role of oral interaction for second language learning with a special focus on school-age English language learners.

Key areas covered include formulaic and creative language use, the different ways of scaffolding learning, the use of corrective feedback, the relationship between oral interaction and print literacy, as well as differences that learner aptitude and motivation make to language learning. Additional activities are provided to help teachers relate the content to their own teaching context.

Focus on Oral Interaction explores the role of oral interaction for second language learning from cognitive, social, pedagogical, and linguistic perspectives, with a focus on research relevant to English language learners aged 6-16. It emphasizes the important role played by oral language in classrooms. Featuring real classroom data and summaries of research studies, Focus on Oral Interaction shows you how theory relates to practice. Activities help you relate research and theory on oral interaction to your own teaching context.

Focus on Oral Interaction e-Book for Kindle Focus On Oral Interaction Mobi Format

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Focus on Oral Interaction

Rhonda Oliver and Jenefer Philp

Referencing classroom-based research and classroom vignettes, Focus on Oral Interaction explores the role of oral interaction for second language learning with a special focus on school-age English language learners.

Focus on Assessment e-Book for Kindle Focus On Assessment Mobi Format

Catalog

Research-led guide helping teachers understand, design, implement, and evaluate language assessment

Eunice Eunhee Jang

Referencing classroom-based research and classroom vignettes, Focus on Assessment helps you to understand research evidence in language assessment for students aged 6-16. It develops your ability to design, implement, and critically evaluate language assessment.

English for Academic Purposes

Catalog

A comprehensive overview of EAP and how it is best taught and learnt in a variety of academic contexts

Edward de Chazal

A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research in the field of English for Academic Purposes, presenting typical and best practice, and providing practical suggestions for developing materials to promote both language and skills.

Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom

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Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada

These research-led instructional guides link the theories of second language acquisition and pedagogy with classroom practice, enabling teachers to reflect on what happens in the language classroom. The series editors, Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada, are highly respected worldwide for making theory and research about language learning accessible and relevant to classroom teaching.

Focus On Content-Based Language Teaching

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Research-led guide examining instructional practices that address the challenges of content-based language teaching

Patsy M. Lightbown

Referencing classroom- based research and classroom vignettes, Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching examines the challenges of teaching a second or foreign language alongside another academic subject.

The Internet e-book

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Scott Windeatt and David Hardisty

This book offers activities based around the Internet, including searching on the Web, creating language-learning material, and communicating using the Internet. Opens up new opportunities for language learning, with the World Wide Web providing access to material on almost any topic.

The Internet and Young Learners e-book

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Gordon Lewis

This book combines Internet resources with structured classroom activities to maximize learning potential. The activities are firmly anchored in children's experiences and include purposeful tasks with a clear language component.