RECOMMENDED READING

We recommend that you buy at least two books:

•  a grammar book (Either 'Grammar for English Language Teachers', written by Martin Parrott and published by Cambridge University Press) or 'Practical English Usage', written by Michael Swan and published by Oxford University Press.)  

•  a methodology book (Either 'Learning Teaching',latest edition), written by Jim Scrivener and published by Heinemann or 'The Practice of English Language Teaching' (latest edition), written by Jeremy Harmer and published by Longman.)

 

You should try to read the methodology book before the course starts. The grammar book is not really a book to be read from beginning to end. It is essentially a reference book. However, you might find it interesting to leaf through it before the course starts to get some idea of the kind of information it contains.

Below is a list of other books which would be useful to read but they are not essential reading. They will be available to read here at the centre.

TITLE

AUTHOR

PUBLISHER

A Course in Language Teaching

Penny Ur

Cambridge University Press

How to Teach Grammar

Scott Thornbury

Longman

How to Teach Vocabulary

Scott Thornbury

Longman

A Framework for Task-based Learning

Jane Willis

Longman

How Languages are Learned

Lightbown and Spada

Oxford University Press

Keep Talking

Friederike Klippel

Cambridge University Press

Writing

Tribble

Oxford University Press

Developing Reading Skills

Grellet

Cambridge University Press

Working With Words

Gairns and Redman

Cambridge University Press

How to Teach Pronunciation

Kelly

Longman

Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching

Larsen-Freeman

Oxford University Press

Teaching Listening Comprehension

Penny Ur

Cambridge University Press

Discover English (2nd Edition)

Bolitho and Tomlinson

Macmillan

Teaching Tenses

Aitken

Nelson

English Grammar in Use

Murphy

Cambridge University Press

Practical Techniques for Language Learning

Lewis and Hill

LTP

 


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