This series of learning objectives offers all practitioners a description of the language needed to assure a learner´s ability to deal with the challenges presented by everyday communication.

Translation and Own-language Activities provides structured, practical advice and guidance for using students´ own languages within ELT classrooms. Taking into account both the growing interest and co...

This volume introduces a new concept, ´criterial features´, for the learning, teaching and testing of English as a second language. The work is based on research conducted within the English Profile P...

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen´s best-selling books ...

Distance learning presents language teachers and learners with a new set of challenges, opportunities and practical realities. This book presents a comprehensive overview of important issues within th...

This book is about investigating the way people use language in speech and writing. It introduces the corpus-based approach to linguistics, based on analysis of large databases of real language exampl...

Complete Key for Schools is official preparation for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at young...

Over the past decade criterion-referenced testing (CRT) has become an emerging issue in language assessment. Most language testing books have hitherto focused almost exclusively on norm-referenced tes...

Demand is steadily growing for language tests with a specialized focus which will suit the needs of key professional domains as diverse as business, law, the airline industry, and teacher education. T...

This comprehensive 2002 book examines approaches to teaching students who aim to make the leap from ´advanced´ or ´superior´ proficiency in a foreign language to ´near-native´ ability. While there are...

Cambridge Exams Extra PET provides authentic past papers from Cambridge ESOL, plus a wealth of extra material for use in the classroom or for self-study. This title contains four complete PET past p...

Cambridge Exams Extra PET provides authentic past papers from Cambridge ESOL, plus a wealth of extra material for use in the classroom or for self-study. This title contains four complete PET past p...

This book is for students preparing for the Cambridge Preliminary English Test. It covers the grammar you need for the exam. You can use it with a general English language course for extra grammar pra...

CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR PET WITHOUT ANSWER

This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedago...

Despite persistent assertions of washback (the influence of testing on teaching and learning) limited research studies have been undertaken on the subject. Even fewer studies have made use of quantita...

This book provides a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a...

Join Us is a restructured and fully updated edition of the successful Join In.This is exciting course for young learners provides a motivating and enjoyable way to learn English. It has been revised t...

This innovative volume presents an in-depth study of the language used by participants in business meetings. The cutting-edge research draws on the Cambridge and Nottingham Business English Corpus (CA...

This edited volume develops a theoretical framework for validating tests of second language ability. The chapter authors show how an understanding and analysis of the framework and its components can ...

Inevitably, it is in the most commonly used languages that the vocabulary of language testing and assessment is most highly developed, and for which most of the literature has been produced. A multili...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Nolan is a robot, created by a lonely electronics expert, John, to run his home, cook and do the ironing. But Nolan is not content; he wants ...

This second edition updates a course which has proven to be a perfect fit for classes the world over. The Teacher´s Resource Book contains the content for Combos 2A and 2B in one volume. All unit numb...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Secret agent Ian Munro is despatched to Penang to stop an assassination attempt on the Prince (a member of the British royal family, who is ther...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Rick Drummond is a music lover without a job who dreams of making it big in the world of music. The people around him think he´s just a dreamer,...

Describes 20 years of work at Cambridge English to develop multilingual assessment frameworks. Multilingual Frameworks covers the development of the ALTE Framework and ´Can Do´ project; work on the Co...

If the English language is a glorious garden, filled with exotic hybrids and the continuing tradition of heritage specimens, then it is no surprise that we will also find some weeds. Linguistic weeds ...

This important new book provides a critical overview of recent classroom-centered research and its implications for the teaching and learning of languages. Chaudron synthesizes and evaluates crucial r...

Do you need to supplement an EAP course with fun, interactive activities that address the serious aspirations of academically-focussed students? Communicative Activities for EAP provides innovative E...

Join Us is a restructured and fully updated edition of the successful Join In.This is exciting course for young learners provides a motivating and enjoyable way to learn English. It has been revised t...

Captivating Discovery Education(TM) video and stimulating global topics spark curiosity and engage teenage learners. Developed in partnership with Discovery Education (TM), Eyes Open features captivat...

A highly visual six-level series featuring beautiful photography, captivating video, and interest-grabbing CLIL-based topics that take English learners on a fascinating journey of exploration and disc...