"Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding" Charles Dickens's tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had, along with Dickens's other Christmas writings, a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a t ... more
A completely revised and updated edition of A Course in Language Teaching. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to English language teaching, and is suitable for teachers in a variety of educational settings, including compulsory education. It has been completely revised and updated to include essential new topics for the modern English language teacher, including English as an international language, ... more
Documents the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002. As a context for how CELS was conceived, developed, constructed, validated and managed, the book traces the history of exams which have influenced CELS. The Royal Society of Arts (RSA), later UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) Communicati ... more
Documents the development of the Cambridge ESOL Certificates in English Language Skills (CELS), a suite of modular examinations first offered in 2002. As a context for how CELS was conceived, developed, constructed, validated and managed, the book traces the history of exams which have influenced CELS. The Royal Society of Arts (RSA), later UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) Communicative Use of English as ... more
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A Practicum of TESOL is a source book for both teachers and teacher trainers. It ranges widely across key areas of practice e.g. lesson planning, classroom management and more conceptual areas such as motivation and observation. It also looks at the moral and political dimensions of teaching. ... more
Language testers have generally come to recognize the limitations of traditional statistical methods for validating oral language tests. They have begun to consider more innovative approaches to test validation, approaches that promise to illuminate the assessment process itself, rather than just assessment outcomes (i.e., ratings). One such approach is conversation analysis (or CA), a rigorous empirical methodology developed by so ... more
'"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..." Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes ... more
'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!' After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputa ... more
Table of contents UNIT ONE LANGUAGE Chapter 1 Destination: College, U.S.A. Chapter 2 How to Be a Successful Language Learner Chapter 3 The Education of Berenice Belizaire UNIT TWO CULTURE Chapter 4 Cultural Identity vs. Ethnic Fashions Chapter 5 A Global Analysis of Culture Chapter 6 The All-Americ ... more
This is a comprehensive academic writing skills book that includes authentic readings and a study of grammar.This Teacher's Manual provides teaching guidelines and tips, suggestions for creating a communicative classroom and for responding to students' writing, and a complete set of answers for the Student's Book activities. ... more
Give your toddler a head start with 30 colourful picture cards, expertly designed to develop early language skills. Lively photographs keep children interested and engaged. Prompts on the back of cards provide extra information and talkin ... more
Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works. This book asks: 'What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlyin ... more
Tasks for teachers of English that help to develop language awareness and invite consideration of the pedagogical implications and classroom applications.This second edition has been fully revised and updated, incorporating recent developments in language description, whilst keeping the organisation and structure of the successful first edition. As before, the book asks: ' ... more
The Academic Encounters Second edition series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area.Academic Encounters Level 1 Class Audio CDs (3) Listening and Speaking: The Natural World contains the listening materials for Academic Encounters Level 1 Student's Book Listening and Spe ... more
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