From Language Learner to Language Teacher: An Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language - Softcover

Snow, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931185387 ISBN 13: 9781931185387

Publisher: TESOL Press, 2007

Synopsis

Today, there are about four nonnative-speaking English teachers for every teacher who is a native speaker. More English teachers work in non-English-speaking settings than in English-speaking settings, and most are natives of the countries in which they teach. This volume focuses on the challenges faced by English teachers for whom English is a second (or even third or fourth) language. Four themes receive special emphasis: communicative language teaching, proficiency, language learning, and practicality. Chapters 1 5 cover issues of classroom survival: basic principles of language learning and teaching and course and lesson planning. Chapters 6 13 discuss the language skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar; the role of culture in language teaching; and some of the problems that recur in EFL classrooms. An afterword suggests paths for teachers who want to pursue further study. Appendixes offer a starter kit for course planning, sample course plans, culture-topic activity ideas for oral skills classes, and print and Internet resources for teachers and students.

About this edition

• Publisher: TESOL Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1931185387
• ISBN 13: 9781931185387
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368