Key Issues in Language Teaching (Cambridge Professional Learning) - Softcover

Richards, Jack C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110745610X ISBN 13: 9781107456105

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

A comprehensive and extensively researched overview of key issues in language teaching. This essential text for English language teachers surveys a broad range of core topics that are important in understanding contemporary approaches to teaching English as a second or international language, and which form the content of many professional development courses for language teachers. A wide range of issues is examined, including a consideration of the nature of English in the world, the way the English teaching profession works, the development of teaching methods, the nature of classroom teaching, teaching the four skills, teaching the language system, and elements of a language program.

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This essential text for English language teachers surveys a broad range of core topics that are important in understanding contemporary approaches to teaching English as a second or international language, and which form the content of many professional development courses for language teachers. A wide range of issues is examined, including a consideration of the nature of English in the world, the way the English teaching profession works, the development of teaching methods, the nature of classroom teaching, teaching the four skills, teaching the language system, and elements of a language program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110745610X
• ISBN 13: 9781107456105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848