Teaching English Grammar: How to Teach and When to Teach it
The essential handbook for teachers wanting to prepare and deliver effective grammar lessons. It combines a comprehensive grammar reference with practical teaching advice, helping teachers to both understand grammar points and present them. It presents concept questions, timelines and other useful insights to help teachers prepare lessons using language suitable for students rather than academic prose and includes information on common student errors to help teachers anticipate likely problems. Every trainee teacher and language school staffroom should have a copy of this book.
Creating the Academic Commons: Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research
Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These centers of information have been labeled variously but they all share a commonality: the empowerment of students and teachers.
In this groundbreaking resource, two school garden pioneers offer parents, teachers, and school administrators everything they need to know to build school gardens and to develop the programs that support them. Today both schools and parents have a unique opportunity — and an increasing responsibility — to cultivate an awareness of our finite resources, to reinforce values of environmental stewardship, to help students understand concepts of nutrition and health, and to connect children to the natural world. What better way to do this than by engaging young people, their families, and teachers in the wondrous outdoor classroom that is their very own school garden?
Teaching American English Pronunciation (Handbooks for Language Teachers)
This book is intended as both a textbook and a reference manual for teachers of English as a Second Language. While there are many other introductory phonetics textbooks on the market, none has been written specifically for the ESL teacher. This book attempts to fill this gap by providing an accessible introduction to the fields of phonetics and phonology as they relate to second language learning.
A collection of MP3s and accompanying PDFs downloaded from the BBC Learning English website to help students with their listening or as an additonal source of listenings for teachers who may prepare listening tasks from the text.
