English Language Teaching Today: Linking Theory and Practice provides an up-to-date account of current principles and practices for teaching English in the world today. The chapters, written by internationally recognized language teacher educators and TESOL specialists, introduce the reader to key language skill areas (i.e., listening, speaking, reading, writing, pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary) and explain how each skill area can be taught in a principled manner in diverse language learning contexts. Throughout the book, the link between theory and practice is explicitly highlighted and exemplified. This reader-friendly book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in TESOL and other second language education programmes as well as for TESOL professionals who wish to stay current with recent developments in ELT.

This book explores the ideologies, policies, and practices of English language education around the world today. It shows the ways in which ideology is a constituent part of the social realities of English language teaching (ELT) and how ELT policies and practices are shaped by ideological positions that privilege some participants and marginalize others. Each chapter considers the multiple ideologies underlying the thinking and actions of different members of society about ELT and how these inform overt and covert policies at the national level and beyond. They examine the implications of investigating ELT ideologies and policies for advancing socio-political understandings of practical aspects such as instruction, materials, assessment, and teacher education in the field. Introducing new persepctives on the theory and practice of language teaching today, this book is ideal reading for researchers and postgraduate students interested in applied linguistics and language education, faculty members of higher education institutions, English language teachers, and policy makers and planners.

This text includes a selection of commissioned and classic articles that introduce a range of theories of second language acquisition and the contested explanations of effective language learning.

This Element offers a comprehensive account of the unprecedented spread of English as a global language by taking historical, sociolinguistic, and pedagogical perspectives. To realize this mission, it opens with an accessible discussion of the historical trajectory of the English language with qualitative and quantitative connections to its contemporary diversity in terms of forms, roles, functions, uses, users, and contexts of English as a global and multilingual franca. Built upon this synchronic-diachronic symbiosis, the discussion is complemented by an overview of major analytical paradigms and trends that promote systematical scrutiny of the English language and its sociolinguistic and educational implications. It ends by showcasing instructional practices, recommendations, reflective questions, and future directions for language educators to revamp their beliefs, commitments, and practices considering the changing needs and realities of the present-day global sociolinguistic ecology and individuals therein.

"Provides an overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. The materials discussed include the complete range of language-learning resources from teacher-created materials to commercially-developed tasks, texts, and activities. Seventeen original chapters explore the issues involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of materials in a wide variety of contexts. The contributors, an international group of established experts, explain the theories and principles underlying their approaches to materials design. They examine the issues that materials writers encounter when developing language-teaching materials, both in print and digital formats, and present a variety of solutions that help resolve those issues. Discussion questions and tasks follow each chapter to make this volume useful to prospective and practicing teachers alike"--Page 4 of cover

This reader provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing and understanding how ELT classroom curricula can be analysed, developed and evaluated. The commissioned and classic texts place curriculum change in a philosophical framework and also explore the political and institutional considerations. A series of case studies are provided to highlight both the role of the teacher in curriculum innovation and various processes of planning and implementation. The final section deals with evaluating curriculum and syllabus change.

With stress 256 (3) Working with intonation 259 (3) Sounds and spelling 262 (1) Connected speech and fluency 263 (2) PART 7: LANGUAGE SKILLS Teaching Language Skills Skills together 265 (5) Input and output 266 (1) Integrating skills 266 (1) Language skills, language construction 267 (1) Integrating skill and language work 268 (2) Top-down and bottom-up 270 (1) Receptive skills 270 (5) A basic methodological model for teaching receptive skills 270 (2) The language issue 272 (2) Comprehension tasks 274 (1) Productive skills 275 (3) A basic methodological model for teaching productive skills 275 (1) Structuring discourse 276 (1) Interacting with an audience 277 (1) Dealing with difficulty 277 (1) The language issue 278 (1) Projects 278 (5) Managing projects 279 (1) A webquest project 280 (3) Reading Extensive and intensive reading 283 (5) Extensive reading 283 (3) Intensive reading: the roles of the teacher 286 (1) Intensive reading: the vocabulary question 286 (1) Intensive reading: letting the students in 287 (1) Reading lesson sequences 288 (15) Examples of reading sequences 288 (15) Listening Extensive and intensive listening 303 (5) Extensive listening 303 (1) Intensive listening: using audio material 304 (2) Who controls the recorded material? 306 (1) Intensive listening: `live’ listening 306 (1) Intensive listening: the roles of the teacher 307 (1) Film and video 308 (2) Viewing techniques 308 (1) Listening (and mixed) techniques 309 (1) Listening (and film) lesson sequences 310 (9) Examples of listening sequences 310 (9) The sound of music 319 (4) Writing Literacy 323 (2) Handwriting 323 (1) Spelling 324 (1) Layout and punctuation 325 (1) Approaches to student writing 325 (6) Process and product 325 (2) Genre 327 (1) Creative writing 328 (1) Writing as a cooperative activity 328 (1) Building the writing habit 329 (1) Writing-for-learning and writing-for-writing 330 (1) The roles of the teacher 330 (1) Writing lesson sequences 331 (9) Portfolios, journals, letters 340 (3) Speaking Elements of speaking 343 (2) Different speaking events 343 (1) Conversational strategies 343 (2) Functional language, adjacency pairs and fixed phrases 345 (1) Students and speaking 345 (3) Reluctant students 345 (2) The roles of the teacher 347 (1) Classroom speaking activities 348 (5) Acting from a script 348 (1) Communication games 349 (1) Discussion 350 (1) Prepared talks 351 (1) Questionnaires 352 (1) Simulation and role-play 352 (1) Speaking lesson sequences 353 (8) Making recordings 361 (3) Getting everyone involved 362 (2) PART 8: PLANNING AND SYLLABUSES Planning Lessons The planning paradox 364 (3) The planning continuum 365 (1) Using plans in class 365 (2) Pre-planning and planning 367 (8) Student needs 367 (1) Making the plan 368 (3) Making the plan formal: background elements 371 (3) Making the plan formal: describing procedure and materials 374 (1) Planning a sequence of lessons 375 (4) Projects and threads 377 (2) PART 9: EVALUATION Testing and Evaluation Testing and assessment 379 (2) Different types of testing 379 (2) Characteristics of a good test 381 (1) Types of test item 381 (5) Direct and indirect test items 381 (1) Indirect test item types 382 (2) Direct test item types 384 (2) Writing and marking tests 386 (3) Writing tests 386 (1) Marking tests 387 (2) Teaching for tests 389 (6) PART 10: LEARNER AUTONOMY AND TEACHER DEVELOPMENT Learner Autonomy: Learning to Learn Promoting autonomy 395 (1) Students and teachers 395 (1) Learner training, learner autonomy 396 (7) Thinking about learning 397 (2) Taking over 399 (1) Learning journals 400 (3) Forcing agency? 403 (1) The self-access centre (SAC) 403 (4) Characteristics of a good self-access centre 404 (2) Evaluating self-access resources 406 (1) After (and outside) the course 407 (3) Training students to continue learning 407 (3) What Teachers Do Next Reflection paths 410 (4) Keeping journals 411 (1) Negative and positive 411 (1) Recording ourselves 412 (1) Professional literature 413 (1) Action research 414 (4) Action research cycles 414 (1) Gathering data 415 (3) Developing with others 418 (4) Cooperative/collaborative development 418 (1) Peer teaching, peer observation 419 (2) Teachers’ groups 421 (1) Teachers’ associations 421 (1) The virtual community 422 (1) Moving outwards and sideways 422 (3) Learning by learning 423 (1) Supplementing teaching 423 (2) More training? 425 (1) Being well 425 (4) Bibliography 429 (9) DVD Contents and tasks 438 (4) Indexes (Subject and Author) 442

Essentials For Successful English Language Teaching is about how we teach English Language Learners (ELLs) and how our ELLs learn. Farrell and Jacobs encourage those involved in teaching English to develop, maintain and rediscover the reasons that led them to take up the profession. They focus on the essentials in teaching the English language that teachers can implement in their instruction so that their students can excel in their learning: Encourage learner autonomy Emphasize the social nature of learning Develop curricular integration, focus on meaning Celebrate diversity Expand thinking skills Utilize alternative assessment, and Promote English language teachers as co-learners along with their students. These essentials are best implemented as a whole, rather than one at a time and so they are interwoven with each other to encourage a holistic teaching approach. Highly accessible, each chapter comes with case studies and a range of activities to encourage the reader to put each of the essentials into practice. With these the authors aim to bring an inner smile to all English language teachers that reassures them they made the right choice when they chose to become teachers of the English language. This reflective and engaging book will be invaluable to postgraduate students of TESOL and applied linguistics, and in-service language teachers.

This book is intended for those who have only limited training or experience in teaching English as as a foreign language and who want a general but practical introduction to the whole subject. Those who wish to do further reading on any aspect will find bibliographies giving details of more specialised books after each chapter. The book is based on material which has been used successfully on teacher training courses at International House in London. -- Back cover.

English Language Teaching (ELT), especially English as a Second Language (ESL) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL), has been witnessing unprecedented changes in curriculum, teaching methodology, and the application of learning theories. This has created a demand for teachers who can teach English to learners of varied cultural, socio-economic and psychological backgrounds. The book, in its second edition, continues to discuss the modern trends, innovations, as well as the difficulties and challenges in teaching and learning ESL in a non-native context. The book, with contributions from many experts (each one specializing in a particular field) from countries such as UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, India, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan, provides new methods, strategies and application-oriented solutions to overcome the problems in a practical way. The book deals with all topics pertinent to English as a Second Language or English for the non-native speakers, and these are further reinforced by a large number of examples and quotations from different sources. The new edition comes along with thoroughly improvised chapters on Narrative Inquiry for Teacher Development (Chapter 13) and Mass Media, Language Attitudes and Language Interaction Phenomena (Chapter 23): to provide an insight on the innovative approaches in Teacher training and in classrooms, and new approaches and changing language dimensions in the world of media, and in general. What distinguishes the text is its focus on modern innovations and use of technology in ELT/CLT (Communicative Language Teaching). Postgraduate Students of English, teachers, teacher-trainees (B.Ed./M.A. Education/M.Ed.), and teacher-educators who are concerned with teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) should find this book immensely helpful.a