A Practical Handbook of Language Teaching /
David Cross.
- 2nd ed.
- Harlow, UK : Pearson education limited, 1999.
- viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"David Cross has broad experience in classroom teaching, teacher training and conducting trainer training programmes in the USA, Europe, Egypt and Africa. He now works as an English Language Teaching Officer on a British Council / Overseas Development Administration programme at the Ecole Normale Superieure d'Abidjan, Ivory Coast." (Back Cover).
"David Cross has broad experience in classroom teaching, teacher training and conducting trainer training programmes in the USA, Europe, Egypt and Africa. He now works as an English Language Teaching Officer on a British Council / Overseas Development Administration programme at the Ecole Normale Superieure d'Abidjan, Ivory Coast." (Back Cover).
“The aim of this handbook is to meet the needs of teachers and trainees, as well as those of their advisers, by combining the essentials of successful classroom management and teaching in a single, easily read volume. Thoughtful study, perhaps coupled with discussion with colleagues, will enable readers to learn to teach or to improve their teaching, quite independently. The emphasis throughout is on practicality, although readers are made aware of the theory underlying any technique or approach.” (Book Cover).
CONTENTS: Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: BASIC LANGUAGE TEACHING SKILLS 1. Presenting and practising vocabulary 2. Presenting and practising structures 3. Presenting and practising grammar points 4. Conducting meaningful drills 5. Using pair and group work 6. Oral work: elicitation techniques PART TWO: STANDARD LESSON TYPES 7. Exploiting the text 8. Exploiting dialogues 9. Using the blackboard 10. Making and using simple teaching aids 11. Planning lessons PART THREE: INTRODUCING VARIETY INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING 12. Language learning games 13. Songs and rhymes 14. Revision and homework 15. Classroom testing 16. Improving pronunciation: sounds and spellings 17. Improving pronunciation: the music of English PART FOUR: DEVELOPING RECEPTIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS 18. Encouraging creative language use 19. Developing listening skills 20. Developing reading skills 21. Developing writing skills 22. Developing oral skills
“The aim of this handbook is to meet the needs of teachers and trainees, as well as those of their advisers, by combining the essentials of successful classroom management and teaching in a single, easily read volume. Thoughtful study, perhaps coupled with discussion with colleagues, will enable readers to learn to teach or to improve their teaching, quite independently. The emphasis throughout is on practicality, although readers are made aware of the theory underlying any technique or approach.” (Book Cover). CONTENTS:
Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: BASIC LANGUAGE TEACHING SKILLS 1. Presenting and practising vocabulary 2. Presenting and practising structures 3. Presenting and practising grammar points 4. Conducting meaningful drills 5. Using pair and group work 6. Oral work: elicitation techniques
PART TWO: STANDARD LESSON TYPES 7. Exploiting the text 8. Exploiting dialogues 9. Using the blackboard 10. Making and using simple teaching aids 11. Planning lessons
PART THREE: INTRODUCING VARIETY INTO TEACHING AND LEARNING 12. Language learning games 13. Songs and rhymes 14. Revision and homework 15. Classroom testing 16. Improving pronunciation: sounds and spellings 17. Improving pronunciation: the music of English
PART FOUR: DEVELOPING RECEPTIVE AND COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS 18. Encouraging creative language use 19. Developing listening skills 20. Developing reading skills 21. Developing writing skills 22. Developing oral skills
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