This book is an essential resource for teachers who work in challenging circumstances, which might include formal education systems in the developing or developed world and informal or non-formal teac...

Vocabulary is now well recognized as an important focus in language teaching and learning. Now in its third edition, this book provides an engaging, authoritative guide to the teaching and learning of...

Understanding reading abilities and their development is fundamental for language comprehension and human cognition. Now in its second edition, this book draws on research from multiple disciplines to...

This concise book is authored by the highly-regarded educator and author, Carol Read and draws on her significant expertise in teaching children aged 6-12. It considers all aspects of children´s devel...

The central aim of language teaching is typically to prepare learners to communicate through the language learnt. However, much current language teaching theory and practice is based on a simplistic v...

This Element provides an overview of research focusing on language teaching practices for young multilingual learners in primary classrooms in English-speaking contexts. The term ´young multilingual l...

In this accessible book, Nicky Hockly draws on her extensive personal experience, along with relevant research and theory, to provide practical guidance on the effective implementation of learning tec...

A compact, user-friendly reference book, investigating current trends in ELT. Trends are wide-ranging and include topics such as plurilingualism, wellbeing, digital literacies, metacognition, flipped ...

This book provides an accessible guide to concepts in language testing and the testing of specific skills and systems. It combines theory and practical recommendations to help teachers understand the ...

Imagine That! explores new ways to enliven your classroom by opening "the mind´s eye, ear and heart" with motivating activities that help your students learn more effectively. Using more of their inne...

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers provide practical guidance and a wealth of activities for the language class-room. Each book includes a introduction to the topic covered, a wide range of act...

Alan Maley´s 50 Creative Activities is a collection of 50 classroom activities designed to promote creative language use. It is based on the premise that one of the major benefits of fostering creativ...

Innovative activities for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teachers and trainee teachers. CLIL Activities is organised into five chapters: Activating, Guiding understanding, Focus on l...

This compact, user-friendly book draws on Mark Hancock´s wealth of experience and knowledge of the topic. It gives a broad overview of the practical issues and challenges involved in teaching pronunci...

David Crystal answers fifty questions about language usage, from general enquiries to specific points of grammar, pronunciation, orthography, vocabulary, idiom, and style. In this compact, user-friend...

A compact, user-friendly reference book which draws from up-to-date research and theories from psychology to offer teachers with practical tips for small changes which they can make to their practice ...

This book offers 50 practical ideas for teachers to use for professional development. The tips cover a wide range of activities that can be carried out individually or in collaboration with others, in...

Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. Strategic Reading Level 3 is a reading skills book that contains twelve themat...

This book steers even-handedly through the minifield of political debate about the cultural hegemony of English, and will appeal to anyone with an interest in language issues, whatever their politic...

A compact, user-friendly reference book addressing many of the kinds of questions about grammar that regularly confront teachers, both novice and experienced, when planning or executing their lessons....

Using Newspapers in the Classroom is a collection of over 130 practical and creative newspaper-based activities to use with young adult and adult learners from pre-intermediate to advanced levels. The...

* Teaching English Spelling is a resource book of supplementary activities for practising common patterns in English.

Cambridge IELTS 9 contains four authentic IELTS past papers from Cambridge ESOL, providing excellent exam practice. The Student´s Book with answers allows students to familiarise themselves with IELTS...

In this accessible book, Jeremy Harmer draws on his extensive experience of communicative language teaching to provide 50 tried and tested classroom activities to help you develop your learners´ langu...

* A Course In Language Teaching provides a comprehensive basic introduction to teaching languages, for use in pre-service or early experience settings. * It can be used by groups of teachers worki...

This text guides foreign and second language educators in the use of classroom-based assessment as a tool for improving both teaching and learning.

The field of task-based language teaching has developed considerably since the publication of Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989) a book which helped to set the research agen...

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers provide practical guidance and a wealth of activities for the language class-room. Each book includes a introduction to the topic covered, a wide range of act...

Provides students with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material prepared by Cambridge ESOL. Each collection co...

Strategic Reading Level 1 is a reading skills book that contains twelve thematic units, each with three high interest readings. All readings come from authentic sources and have been slightly adapted ...

The studies in this volume explore needs analysis in the public, vocational and academic sectors, in contexts ranging from service encounters in coffee shops to foreign language needs assessment in th...

This collection of four complete practice tests comprises past papers from the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English examination, specially adapted by the UCLES to reflect the most CAE specificati...