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Designing and Analyzing Language Tests
NATHAN CARR
Designing and Analyzing Tests with accompanying CD-ROM gives you a solid grounding
in language assessment theory, practical guidance on developing and administering tests,
and shows you how to use Excel for statistical analysis of procedures.
▶ Includes a CD-ROM with Excel worksheets for hands-on practice, completed worksheets
for you to check your answers, and video tutorials for each Excel worksheet.
▶ Recommended for TESOL Masters and Diploma students, language teacher educators,
teachers in charge of testing for their language programs, or who write their own tests.
Teaching the Pronunciation of Englich as a Lingua Franca
ROBIN WALKER
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in
the world today. This book and audio CD explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your
students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features
that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores
how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students.
▶ Explores the benefits of an ELF approach to pronunciation.
▶ Explains how to adopt, plan and assess an ELF approach to pronunciation.
▶ Describes the materials and techniques for teaching ELF pronunciation.
▶ Shows how to make use of the learner's first-language pronunciation.
▶ Accompanying audio CD features samples of speech from 15 different ELF speakers.
which you can use for the analysis of variation in different aspects of ELT pronunciation,
for listening practice in accent variation, or to stimulate debate on the issues behind an
ELF approach to pronunciation.
Communication in the Language Classroom
TONY LYNCH
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is one manifestation of the changing role of English in the
world today. This book and audio CD explore how ELF may be relevant to teaching your
students pronunciation. It draws on the Lingua Franca core, a set of pronunciation features
that research has found to be essential to intelligibility in ELF communications, and explores
how adopting an ELF approach can benefit students.
▶ Explores the benefits of an ELF approach to pronunciation.
▶ Explains how to adopt, plan and assess an ELF approach to pronunciation.
▶ Describes the materials and techniques for teaching ELF pronunciation.
▶ Shows how to make use of the learner's first-language pronunciation.
▶ Accompanying audio CD features samples of speech from 15 different ELF speakers which
you can use for the analysis of variation in different aspects of ELT pronunciation, for listening
practice in accent variation, or to stimulate debate on the issues behind an ELF approach to
pronunciation.
Doing Second Language Research
JAMES DEAN BROWN AND THEODORE S RODGERS
▶ Familiarizes you with the basic types of research design used in second language studies.
▶ Gives you a genuine 'feel' for what doing research is like, by giving you specific roles
(e.g. research subject, data collector, data analyst, reporter) within a variety of mini-studies.
▶ Explains different research types in detail: why they are used; how they are designed; what
the different stages are for carrying them out; and how to evaluate them.
▶ Introduces you to some of the classic research studies into second language learning and
encourages you to analyse and discuss them.
▶ Downloadable version of statistical tables and photocopiable worksheets on the Oxford
Teachers' Club website.
Doing Task-based Teaching
★ Shortlisted for the Ben Warren Prize
DAVE WILLIS AND JANE WILLIS
Doing Task-based Teaching aims to give beginner teachers the confidence to start using tasks
in their lessons, and help experienced teachers to widen their repertoire.
▶ Demonstrates procedures for designing and adapting tasks.
▶ Shows how to provide a focus on grammar and vocabulary within a task-based framework.
▶ Suggests ways of combining a taskbased approach with coursebooks.
▶ Provides practical activities to apply the ideas to the reader’s own teaching context.
▶ Appendices include lesson plans and commentaries for tasks and projects, and other
useful material for trainers.
ESOL: A Critical Guide
MELANIE COOKE AND JAMES SIMPSON
This book provides readers with an up-to-date, broad understanding of the distinctive
pedagogic, social, and political contexts of teaching English to adult migrants in countries
where English is the dominant language. The book contains refl ective activities within
each chapter, to enable readers to relate the content to their own contexts, be they teaching,
training, management, inspection, or policy.
Factors which make this book distinctive include:
▶ Its international perspective.
▶ Its recognition of policy contexts.
▶ Its focus on learners’ voices.
▶ Its critical stance.
Explaining English Grammar
★ Shortlisted for the Ben Warren Prize
GEORGE YULE
A fresh approach to explaining grammar, written specifically for language teachers.
Detailed explanations are supported by exercises and practical teaching ideas.
▶ The author draws on his experience as both a leading applied linguist and a hands-on
classroom teacher of English.
▶ Choice of topics and style of explanations focus on the needs of language teachers.
▶ Separates each grammar topic covered into three clear categories: form, meaning, and
meaning in context.
▶ You can read each chapter individually and you don't have to follow the sequence of
topics in the book.
▶ Can be used as a set book or supplementary book on a teacher training course, or by
both new and experienced practising teachers as a self-study text.
Exploring Learner Language
ELAINE TARONE AND BONNIE SWIERZBIN
▶ Gives you a unique 'hands-on' introduction to studying ESL learners' language using
video interviews and footage of students doing language tasks.
▶ Uses linked exercises in the book to guide you through the stages of analysing learners'
language.
▶ Provides full transcripts and an answer discussion section to help you to study and refer
back to the input and explanations.
▶ Case study approach gives you the skills that will help you to explore learner language in
your own classroom.
▶ Recommended for TESOL Masters and Diploma students and language teacher educators.
From Experience to Knowledge in ELT
ELAINE TARONE AND BONNIE SWIERZBIN
A guide to help teachers of English to develop teaching skills through drawing on practical
classroom experience.
▶ Includes sections on teaching materials, classroom environment, and equipment.
▶ Explains principles of lesson planning and classroom management.
▶ Suggests ways of improving students' language skills.
▶ Surveys different types of language test and how to use them.
▶ Supports professional development, including preparation for gaining a recognised
teaching qualification, such as the Cambridge Teaching Knowledge Test.
▶ Authors have a wide experience of teacher training in a variety of contexts.
How Languages are Learned Third Edition
★ English-Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Prize
PATSY M LIGHTBOWN AND NINA SPADA
A fresh approach to explaining grammar, written specifically for language teachers.
Detailed explanations are supported by exercises and practical teaching ideas.
▶ Relates theories of first and second language acquisition to what actually goes on in the
classroom.
▶ Uses activities and projects throughout to explore the practical implications of the ideas
presented.
▶ Suitable for teacher training courses as well as for new and experienced practising
teachers.
▶ New: Explores recent theories such as skill learning, connectionism, and the 'noticing
hypothesis'.
▶ New: Includes more on current theories of first language acquisition and early bilingualism,
and factors affecting learning such as motivation and learning styles.
▶ New: Includes a fully revised classroom learning section, with examples from a wider
range of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
Intercultural Business Communication
ROBERT GIBSON
An introduction to the theory and practice of intercultural business communication for
teachers, language trainers, and business people.
▶ Presents and explains the leading theories and key concepts of intercultural
communication.
▶ Covers the main relevant business communication skills, such as negotiating, socializing,
and giving presentations.
▶ Provides advice on how to give people training in intercultural communication skills.
▶ Recycles key concepts throughout the book and provides 'cultural checklists' which
summarize the main ideas covered in each section.
▶ Includes interactive activities designed to encourage you to relate your own personal
experiences to the ideas presented in the book.
▶ Suitable for new and experienced business English trainers, trainee business English
teachers, and business people.
Oxford ESOL Handbook
PHILIDA SCHELLEKENS
▶ Focuses on the students: their backgrounds, characteristics, experiences, and first
languages, and shows how all these affect them as learners.
▶ Develops your understanding of how English works and what might make its structure
confusing for learners, and shows you how to apply this knowledge to your teaching.
▶ Gives teachers new to ESOL (for example teachers of English as a Foreign Language
or of adult literacy) a complete introduction to ESOL teaching.
▶ Enables experienced ESOL teachers to check and update their knowledge of recent
developments, new approaches, and research findings.
▶ Provides teacher trainers with a valuable resource for training ESOL teachers.
Success in English Teaching
PAUL DAVIES WITH ERIC PEARSE
An introduction to teaching English in a range of situations for initial teacher training
courses and non native-speaker teachers.
▶ Clear, easy to follow, and free of jargon - does not assume the reader is a native
speaker of English.
▶ Covers all the major topics relevant for trainee teachers with the right level of detail.
▶ Strong focus on classroom teaching, applying theoretical principles to hands-on
teaching practice.
▶ Can be used if you have little or no formal training as an English teacher.
▶ Especially useful if you are working in the students' own country (rather than an
English-speaking country).
▶ Can be used either as a complete course in English teaching or, if you already
have some experience, as a reference book.
Teaching American English Pronunciation
PETER AVERY AND SUSAN EHRLICH
A complete introduction to teaching the pronunciation of North American English
specifically for teachers of English as a second language (ESL)
▶ Provides a clear, thorough description of the sound system of English.
▶ Includes practical ideas for overcoming common pronunciation problems.
▶ Looks at the specific problems that speakers of fifteen different languages have
when speaking English.
▶ Describes a number of classroom techniques to help improve pupils' pronunciation
written by leading classroom practitioners.
▶ Suitable for both trainee ESL teachers on Master's TESOL courses and for new and
experienced practising teachers.
Teaching Business English
★ First Prize, English-Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Award
MARK ELLIS AND CHRISTINE JOHNSON
Understand what makes teaching Business English different and how to analyse
learners' needs and assess progress.
▶ Provides a complete introduction for teachers new to the field, but also relevant for
more experienced teachers.
▶ Explains techniques for analysing learners' specific needs based on the jobs they do
and the tasks they need to perform.
▶ Shows ways of assessing learners' performance and progress.
▶ Looks at work-specific teaching materials and activities: how to select and develop
them, and how to use them effectively.
▶ Presents techniques for managing activities in the classroom.
▶ Discusses similarities and differences between job-experienced and pre-experience
learners.
Teaching English as an International Rethinking Goals and Approaches
★ Winner: Ben Warren Prize 2002
★ Shortlisted for: Frank Bell Prize
SANDRA LEE MCKAY
This book discusses the growing role of English as an international language and its
implications for how it is taught worldwide.
▶ Describes the spread of English worldwide and its practical and educational
consequences.
▶ Discusses the problem of how we define standards when the notion of a single
'standard' form of English is no longer valid.
▶ Explores the critical role of culture in language teaching.
▶ Looks at the implications of English as an international language for current teaching
methods.
▶ Suitable for trainee and practising teachers and other ELT professionals, especially
curriculum and materials developers.
Teaching English Overseas An Introduction
SANDRA LEE MCKAY
Understand how social, cultural, political and economic values impact on teaching overseas.
▶ Puts overseas teaching in its broader context: social, cultural, political, and economic.
▶ Explains how a country's educational and institutional structures and systems affect
language teaching.
▶ Provides 'case studies' in each chapter based on a range of specific countries and teaching
situations.
▶ Suitable for both pre-service and in-service teachers.
▶ Can be used as part of a teacher training course or for self-study.
Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom
TRECIA HEDGE
Information, ideas and insights into English language teaching to develop your own teaching.
▶ Draws on research in a variety of fields and applies it to teaching practice
▶ Features topics of current concern, including defining the roles of teachers and
learners, critical pedagogy, interactive learning, and using innovative teaching materials.
▶ Includes criteria for and advice on evaluating classroom activities, especially those
provided in the published materials that most teachers typically use.
▶ Can be used as a reference text or handbook by individual teachers or as a sourcebook
or class text by teacher trainers.
▶ Written mainly for practising teachers but can be used by new and inexperienced
teachers to give a thorough introductory overview of ELT.
Teaching Second Language Listening
TONY LYNCH
Based on research findings, classroom discourse, and learners' insights, this guide
explains listening processes and how to integrate listening with other skills.
▶ Explains listening processes and the characteristics of spoken language.
▶ Focuses on practical task design, using authentic listening texts.
▶ Shows how to integrate listening with other skills.
▶ Emphasizes the importance of visual information and input in second language listening.
▶ Discusses the potential role of new media, such as the Internet.
▶ Includes listening resources that learners can use independently, as well as in a
classroom setting.
Teaching Second Language Reading
THOME D HUDSON
This book helps language teachers both to improve their strategies in teaching reading
and to understand the reading process.
▶ Gives you a thorough overview of theory and research relating to second-language
reading.
▶ Includes practical suggestions for teaching reading in different contexts.
▶ Presents a variety of strategies for reading and teaching reading and discusses
how to use them in appropriate contexts.
▶ Sets the skill of reading in a wider psychological and social context.
▶ Can be used as a textbook or self-study text for trainee teachers or as a reference
guide for practising teachers.
Teaching Young Language Learners
ANNAMARIA PANTER
A guide for teachers of young language learners exploring the links between
research-driven theory and actual teaching practice in the classroom.
▶ Ties together theory and practice, filling a gap between theoretical books and
resource books.
▶ Looks at background issues as well as classroom techniques, emphasizing
practical advice.
▶ Provides clear examples, tasks, and recommends further reading.
▶ Includes material relevant to a wide age range (from 5 to 14) and illustrates the
difference between teaching different age groups.
▶ Suggests ways of carrying out small-scale action research in primary language
classrooms.
▶ Suitable for experienced practising primary teachers and also recommended for
training courses and Diploma/Master's courses.
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