Off the Page: Activities to Bring Lessons Alive and Enhance Learning

Off the Page: Activities to Bring Lessons Alive and Enhance Learning
Author: Craig Thaine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781108814386

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This book provides teachers with practical ideas to bring teaching materials to life and get lessons off the page. It covers all four language skills and the language systems. The book also supports teachers to develop awareness of the aims of activities, and contains reflective tasks which consider how the activities enhance learning.

Nicky Hockly's 50 Essentials for Using Learning Technologies Paperback

Nicky Hockly's 50 Essentials for Using Learning Technologies Paperback
Author: Nicky Hockly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2022-03-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1108932614

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A compact, user-friendly book authored by Nicky Hockly which draws on her extensive experience and knowledge of using learning technologies in the teaching of languages. It addresses many of the challenges faced by language teachers who are increasingly being required to use learning technologies with little or no support or training.

Teaching in Challenging Circumstances

Teaching in Challenging Circumstances
Author: Chris Sowton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021
Genre: Language and languages
ISBN: 1108816169

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This book is an essential resource for teachers who work in challenging circumstances, which might include formal education systems in the developing or developed world and informal or non-formal teaching in areas with growing numbers of refugees or displaced people. It draws on academic and professional research to provide practical advice that will help teachers address concerns including teaching large classes, working with limited resources and supporting learners who have experienced interrupted education and who may be suffering from trauma. It offers suggestions for creating a positive learning environment and implementing effective teaching practice, and discusses the importance of resilience and wellbeing. Each chapter contains key takeaways, relevant case studies and classroom-ready teaching tips and the book also includes opportunities for teachers to reflect on their own knowledge and experience and develop their resilience and ability.

Philip Kerr’s 30 Trends in ELT eBook

Philip Kerr’s 30 Trends in ELT eBook
Author: Philip Kerr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2022-08-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1009395068

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A compact, user-friendly reference book, investigating current trends in ELT. Trends are wide-ranging and include topics such as: plurilingualism, wellbeing, digital literacies, metacognition, flipped learning, gamification, mediation, and critical thinking, amongst others. The book considers how and why each trend has become important in ELT; explores how the trends are reflected in current practices; and evaluates the trends, looking at their relevance to different ELT contexts and their grounding in research.

Five-Minute Activities

Five-Minute Activities
Author: Penny Ur
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 124
Release: 1992-02-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521397810

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Five-Minute Activities is an invaluable source of ideas for language teachers.

David Crystal's 50 Questions About English Usage eBook

David Crystal's 50 Questions About English Usage eBook
Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1009354914

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A compact, user-friendly book authored by David Crystal which draws on his extensive experience and knowledge of the English language. David Crystal regularly receives questions about usage from all over the English-teaching world. In this book he gives his answers to fifty of the topics that are often raised, ranging from general enquiries about the language as a whole to very specific points of grammar, pronunciation, orthography, vocabulary, idiom, and style.

Lexical Grammar

Lexical Grammar
Author: Leo Selivan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781316644751

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This book is for anyone is interested in the relationship between grammar and vocabulary. The introduction looks at recent developments in corpus linguistics and second language acquisition research, and outlines the important role which chunks play in textual cohesion and in fluency, as well as in grammar acquisition. The practical part of the book provides practitioners with a large number of classroom suggestions and activities for making grammar teaching more lexical, and for making vocabulary practice more grammatical. Activities move from receptive to productive and can be used on their own or to supplement and enhance coursebook content.

Alan Maley's 50 Creative Activities Pocket Editions

Alan Maley's 50 Creative Activities Pocket Editions
Author: Alan Maley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781108457767

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Alan Maley's 50 Creative Activities is based on the belief that fostering creativity leads to the development of more critical and exploratory mind-sets. It contains an extensive range of activities covering creative writing, working with music and sound, working with drama and the voice, playing with language and hands-on activities. Drawing on the work done in creativity studies, Alan Maley considers how new ideas are generated and makes a distinction between the processes which stimulate creativity and creative products.