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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...

English for Specific Purposes offers the teacher a new perspective on this important field. The main concern is effective learning and how this can best be achieved in ESP courses. The authors discuss...

Cambridge Language Teaching Library provides a forum for exploration of central issues in language teaching and learning. The series is addressed to an audience of experienced teachers, as well as to ...

Cambridge Language Education focuses on issues crucial to success ful language teaching and learning, drawing on the best available research and practice. The series is designed for an international...

This second edition is an extensive revision of this successful text. Like the first edition, it surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching, such as grammar translation, audiolingua...

*Discovering Fiction - It is an anthology of short stories by contemporary and classic American authors such as Isaac Asimov, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Kate Chopin and Ernest Hemingway. Th...

* Reading innovates ideas on how to approach reading in the language classroom, and a variety of text-related activities. * In the final section teachers can explore the attitudes of their own learn...

* Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective adresseses the ways in which language learning is related to learning about other cultures and to acquiring an ability to communicate across cultural...

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is now well established as an important and distinctive part of English Language Teaching. Since the late 1980´s ESP has changed in two very significant respects. F...

This book combines up-to-date listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical practice. The paperback edition combines up-to-date listening theory with case studies of actual pedagogical prac...

Beyond Training examines the nature of second language teacher development and how teachers´ practices are influenced by their beliefs and principles. It seeks to move discussion of language teacher d...

The paperback edition provides a social and educational perspective on contemporary English language learners, especially those large, fast-growing Hispanic and Asian groups whose presence is felt str...

Recognizing that teachers are often involved in planning and developing courses as part of their responsibilities, the authors have set out to describe the factors which must be considered in construc...

Cambridge Language Teaching Library provides a forum for exploration of central issues in language teaching and learning. The series is addressed to an audience of experienced teachers, as well as to ...

Cambridge Language Teaching Library provides a forum for exploration of central issues in language teaching and learning. The series is addressed to an audience of experienced teachers, as well as to ...

This text introduces techniques for teachers to explore their classroom experiences and for critical reflection on teaching practices. This book introduces teachers to techniques for exploring their ...

Cambridge Language Education focuses on issues crucial to success ful language teaching and learning, drawing on the best available research and practice. The series is designed for an international...

* DISCOURSE ANALYSIS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS - The book begins with the question: What is discourse analysis? Different models of analysis are outlined and evaluated in terms of their usefullness to l...

This text is a self-contained, student-centered methods text that connects reading theory to practical classroom activities. The paperback edition, ideal for introductory courses on the teaching of se...

Psychology for Language Teachers examines the field of educational psychology and considers various ways in which a deeper understanding of this discipline can help language teachers. The first par...

English for Academic Purposes looks at study skills, but also at other central concerns of EAP, such as needs analysis, syllabus and course design, methodology and materials, learning styles, tests ...

This is a book about how language teachers themselves rather than curriculum specialists develop and implement their own courses. The paperback edition illuminates the process of course development th...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the area of sucessful language learning strategies and reviews the literature and research on this subject to date. The book provides a refe...