1) The Struggle to Teach English as an international Langauge by Adrain Holliday.
2) A Course in Langauge Teaching by Penny Ur
3) Learner Autonomy by Scharle & Szabo
4) The English Teacher’s Handbook by white
5) Understanding Langauge Teaching by kumaravadivelu
6) Teaching Langauge as communication by Widdowson
7) Approaches and Methods in Langauge Teaching by Richards
8) Defining Issues in English Langauge Teaching by Widdowson
9) Controversies in Applied Linguistics by Barbara Seidlhofer
10) Oxford Applied Linguistics: A History of English… by A.P.R. Howatt
Posted by: raghdah | April 20, 2009
BOOKS that Every English TEACHER Should Read !!!
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By: BOOKS that Every English TEACHER Should Read !!! on April 20, 2009
at 8:12 pm
Hello raghda, I was just wondering what grade you are currently teaching.
By: zawan on April 20, 2009
at 11:13 pm
I teach first year Heart Technicians Diploma General English.
By: raghdah on April 21, 2009
at 8:14 pm
There are some really nice books there, but I think most of them would just confuse people in their first year of teaching. I would go entirely for practical titles like Dictation by Mario Rinvolucri et al and 5 Minute Activities by Penny Ur. The next level up would be Sound Foundations by Adrian Underhill and About Language by Scott Thornbury. Then I think teachers are ready for most of the titles you have given, along with some stuff on SLA. I read Defining Issues and the History of ELT after about 10 years of teaching, and to be honest I don’t think I would have appreciated them as much even 2 years earlier.
Would probably change my list even more if they were teaching young learners.
TEFLtastic blog- http://www.tefl.net/alexcase
By: alexcase on April 23, 2009
at 6:09 am
Hello ,
Many thanks for your point of view, the books posted here are concerning teachers interested in Contiuning their postgraduates studies such as MA TESOL , MA APPLIED LINGUISTICS and so..
Best Regards,
RAG.
By: raghdah on May 8, 2009
at 4:41 pm