Capitalization and Punctuation (Workbook)

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Active reading techniques for easier understanding and better retention. Analogies and special skills-focus strands reinforce lessons. Contexts include charts, graphs, maps, produce and medicine labels, how-to directions, employee handbooks, catalogs, credit cards, housing ads, and more. This dynamic worktext series was designed for students who still have trouble understanding what they read, writing a simple report, or finding the appropriate words to express themselves. For maximum efficiency, the easy to use worktext format combines the instructional core of a textbook with the built in response mode of a workbook. A systematic, incremental teaching method promotes progress by steadily building confidence.
Pages: 112
Edition: SDL English In Context
ISBN: 9781602911109
Publisher Stock #: SDLSP3504
 
  
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Anne Burns: Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching

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Product Details
    * Pub. Date: November 2009
    * Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
    * Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    * ISBN-13: 9780415991452
    * ISBN: 0415991455
    * Edition Description: New Edition

Synopsis
This hands-on, practical guide for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators outlines, for those who are new to doing action research, what it is and how it works. Straightforward and reader friendly, it introduces the concepts and offers a step-by-step guide to going through an action research process, including illustrations drawn widely from international contexts. Specifically, the text addresses:
    * action research and how it differs from other forms of research
    * the steps involved in developing an action research project
    * ways of developing a research focus
    * methods of data collection
    * approaches to data analysis
    * making sense of action research for further classroom action.

Each chapter includes a variety of pedagogical activities:
    * Pre-Reading questions ask readers to consider what they already know about the topic
    * Reflection Points invite readers to think about/discuss what they have read
    * action points ask readers to carry out action-research tasks based on what they have read
    * Classroom Voices illustrate aspects of action research from teachers internationally
    * Summary Points provide a synopsis of the main points in the chapter
 
Bringing the 'how-to' and the 'what' together, Doing Action Research in English Language Teaching is the perfect text for BATESOL and MATESOL courses in which action research is the focus or a required component.
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Biography

Anne Burns is Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Australia, and former Dean of the Division of Linguistics and Psychology.
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Robert Jeffcoate: Starting English Teaching

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This book is aimed at new teachers and at teachers new to the teaching of English. Its main focus is the secondary classroom, but primary teachers too will find here much to interest them. Taking the National Curriculum in English as a starting point, but not necessarily the last word on the subject, Robert Jeffcoate looks at the theoretical issues involved in thinking about what English means, defining goals and planning the curriculum. He shows the how to go about developing a repertoire of skills in the different curriculum areas from drama teaching to teaching about the language. His suggestions are illustrated with detailed examples of classroom practice and with many quotations from pupils'' own work.
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Arthur Hughes: Testing for Language Teacher

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It seems that a lot of books in the market on testing deal with the theoretical background of designing large scale tests on the institutional level. Those sorts of books are not so useful for the practicing teacher who is looking for a little guidance on improving their test writing skills for daily classes. This book is written with that teacher in mind. It doesn't overload the reader with loads of statistics, but if you are interested in the statistical basis of the ideas presented in this book, there is a section on statistics in the appendix. 


Basically, this book is divided into three sections. The first section covers the different types of test a teacher might want to give and the differences between those types. The second part delves into the theory of validity and realiability, but doesn't overwhelm the reader with loads of numbers and figures. The third part goes into how to test different skills. The attitude the author takes toward testing is that a test should focus on one of the four basic skills: speaking, reading, writing, or listening. Grammar and vocabulary, he claims, are not ends in themselves, but merely components of the four basic skills, so they don't need to be given much emphasis in testing. I thought that was an interesting idea.
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David Nunan: Designing Task for The Communicative Classroom

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A major addition to the growing body of work on communicative language teaching, this book provides a balanced introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of communicative task design. It is targeted toward all second and foreign language teachers, and is ideal for innovative teachers who wish to develop their own tasks, or adopt/adapt those of others. The purpose of the book is to integrate recent research and practice in language teaching into a framework for analyzing learning tasks. This framework should help foreign and second language teachers select, adapt or create their own communicative tasks. Intended for both practicing and trainee teachers of second or foreign language, the ideas presented can be employed in a variety of teaching situations with different levels of students. It should be useful for teachers of children and adults, and to teachers of English for Specific Purposes as well as those of general purpose English.


This book integrates recent research and practice in language teaching into a framework for analysing learning tasks.
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