Learning Teaching- A Guidebook for English Language Teaching

Contents

Chapter 1 Working with people

1 Teaching and learning

2 Three kinds of teacher

Chapter 2 An introduction to classroom management

1 Options, decisions and actions

2 Classroom interaction

3 Potential problems

Chapter 3 The subject matter of English language teaching

1 Language systems and language skills

Chapter 4 Activities and lessons

1 Classroom activities

2 Four kinds of lesson

3 Using a coursebook

Chapter 5 Planning

1 Formal and informal planning

2 Aims

3 Syllabus and timetable

Chapter 6 Speaking

1 Reasons for speaking

2 Communicative activities

3 Fluency and communication

4 Drama and roleplay

Chapter 7 Vocabulary

1 Introduction

2 The meanings of words

3 Vocabulary in classroom

4 Vocabulary practice activities and games

5 Remembering words

Chapter 8 Toolkit1: Classroom options, skills and techniques

1 Seating

2 Gestures

3 Board drawing

4 Giving instructions

5 Eliciting

6 Fingers

7 Time lines

8 Fillers

9 Wordgames

10 Errors and correction

Chapter 9 Working with language

1 Approaches to grammar

2 Analyzing language: form

3 Grammar: restricted use activities

4 Analyzing language: meaning

5 Grammar: clarifying and focusing

6 Grammar: planning effective lessons

7 Analyzing language: communicative function

8 Phonology: the sounds of English

Chapter 10 Language skills

1 Task-based listening: an introduction

2 Task-based listening: some techniques

3 Approaches to reading

4 Writing

Chapter 11 Toolkit 2: Activities, lessons, courses, people

1 Icebreakers

2 Picture stories

3 Cuisenaire rods

4 Storytelling

5 Using readers

6 Songs and music

7 TV and video

8 Testing

9 Exam classes

10 ESP and business English

11 Learner training

12 Dealing with constraints and problems

Chapter 12 Learning teaching

1 Feedback and reflection

2 Teacher development

3 A closing comment: Language and people

Appendix Observation tasks

1 What helps people learn?

2 Options and decisions

3 Classroom interaction

4 Staging

5 Objectives

6 The learners

7 Feedback to learners

8 Errors and correction

9 Thoughts and questions

10 Stolen goods

The jargon bank

Bibliography and references

Index