January 29th, 2010
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Newly arrived Chinese immigrant students face the hardest imaginable situation in the classroom: most often, this is the only place where they can listen to and practice English.
An Island of English: Teaching ESL in Chinatown
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January 24th, 2010
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Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their listening and speaking skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized around four strands – meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development – teachers will be able to design and present a balanced program for their students.
Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking, and its companion text, Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing, are similar in format and the kinds of topics covered, but do not…
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January 16th, 2010
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As in the original edition, the authors provide a readable explanation of second language teaching methodology supported by numerous classroom examples. In addition, the new edition includes detailed discussions and examples of EFL teaching as well as many scenarios from ESL classes.
ESL/EFL Teaching: Principles for Success
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January 3rd, 2010
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This guide helps future teachers use the Internet effectively and creatively in their ESL/EFL classrooms. Designed by scholars and teachers of second language acquisition and educational technology, this user-friendly text will equip its reader with the necessary pedagogical principles for using technology in the classroom. Also provided are field-tested sample lessons teachers can immediately implement or use as a practical guide and framework to create their own lessons. The chapters are clearly written and the lessons are flexible and easy to modify to other levels and topics. Varied activities capitalize on the authentic and constantly updated nature of the…
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December 5th, 2009
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Susan and Frank Black provide you with their discovery about teaching English as a second language in China – communism is alive and well structured in the classroom.
Classroom structure is something that anyone planning to teach in China, and everyone who is already doing it, should know about. Even the best designed lesson plan will not play if your students are not recognized for who they are: duty-driven, study-driven citizens of their Motherland.
Another critical fact revealed is Who’s Who in the Chinese Classroom. You will learn the truth about the classroom Monitor and about his or her…
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November 28th, 2009
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Focusing on the needs of teachers-in-training in ESL composition, this book provides the theoretical and historical basis for the field, the planning and implementing of course syllabi, and sequenced activities for use in the ESL composition classroom. The book discusses contrastive rhetoric, schema theory, cross- cultural communication, learning styles and strategies, and collaborative learning, and examines response and evaluation techniques to be used with ESL writing, with examples and sample scoring guides. For instructors and students learning ESL.
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