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 |
