Contents bibliographic notes and index.

"This book provides an overview of current approaches, issues, and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. The anthology offers a comprehensive overview to the teaching of English and illustrates the complexity underlying many of the practical planning and instructional activities it involves. Organized into 16 sections, the book contains 41 seminal 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. This anthology serves as an important resource for teachers wishing to design a basic course in methodology." (Publisher's Website)

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. It's 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 aren't 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