Methodology in Language Teaching: An Anthology of Current Practice

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Methodology in Language Teaching provides an overview of approaches, issues, and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. This book provides an overview of current approaches, issues, and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. The anthology offers a comprehensive overview to the teaching of English and illustrates the complexity underlying many of the practical planning and instructional activities it involves. Organized into 16 sections, the book contains 41 seminal articles by well-known teacher trainers and researchers. Also included are two sets of discussion questions - a pre-reading background set and a post-reading reflection set. This anthology serves as an important resource for teachers wishing to design a basic course in methodology.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part I Approaches to Teaching
• 1 English language teaching in the "post-methods" era: towards better diagnosis, treatment, and assessment
• 2 Theories of teaching in language teaching
• Part II Lesson Planning and Classroom Management
• 3 Lesson planning
• 4 Classroom management
• Part III Classroom Dynamics
• 5 Implementing cooperative learning
• 6 Mixed level teaching: tiered tasks and bias tasks
• Part IV Syllabus Design and Instructional Materials
• 7 The ELT curriculum: a flexible model for a changing world
• 8 The role of materials in the language classroom: finding the balance
• Part V Task and Project Work
• 9 Implementing task-based language teaching
• 10 Project work: a means to promote language and content
• Part VI Learning Strategies
• 11 Language learning strategies in a nutshell: update and ESL suggestions
• 12 Learner strategy training in the classroom: an action research study
• Part VII Teaching Grammar
• 13 Seven bad reasons for teaching grammar...and two good ones
• 14 Addressing the grammar-gap in task-work
• 15 Grammar teaching--practice or consciousness-raising
• Part VIII Teaching Pronunciation
• 16 Beyond "listen and repeat": pronunciation teaching materials and theories of second language acquisition
• 17 It's not what you say but how you say it!
• Part IX Teaching speaking
• 18 Factors to consider: developing adult EFL students' speaking abilities
• 19 Conversational English: an interactive, collaborative and reflective approach
• 20 Developing discussion skills in the ESL classroom
• Part X Teaching Listening
• 21 Listening in language learning
• 22 The changing face of listening
• 23 Raising students' awareness of the features of real-world listening input
• Part XI Teaching Vocabulary
• 24 Current research and practice in teaching vocabulary
• 25 Best practice in vocabulary teaching and learning
• Part XII Teaching reading
• 26 Dilemmas for the development of second language reading abilities
• 27 Teaching strategic reading
• 28 Extensive reading: why aren't we all doing it?
• Part XIII Teaching Writing
• 29 Ten steps in planning a writing course and training teachers of writing
• 30 The writing process and process writing
• 31 A genre-based approach to content writing instruction
• 32 Teaching students to self-edit
• Part XIV Assessment
• 33 Alternative assessment: responses to commonly asked questions
• 34 Non-traditional forms of assessment and response to student writing: a step towards learner autonomy
• 35 English proficiency test: the oral component of a primary school
• Part XV Technologies in the Classroom
• 36 Video in the ELT classroom: the role of the teacher
• 37 The internet for English teaching: guidelines for teachers
• 38 What can the World Wide Web offer ESL teachers?
• Part XVI Professional Development
• 39 The English teacher as professional
• 40 Developing our professional competence: some reflections
• 41 Research in your own classroom