Understanding Success and Failure in Adult ESL by
This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular. Based on a study of a group of Mexican immigrants to the US, the author proposes that superación or 'self-actualization' is crucial to understanding the relative success of adult ESL learners. Learners' decisions to drop out were not hasty or superficial but were based on a commonsense assessment concerning how the class might improve the quality of their lives. Those involved in delivering ESL to adult learners should stress the tangible, practical advantages that accrue with learning English, and at the same time strive to make instruction relevant.
The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels by
Offers readers a comprehensive range of instructional strategies and educational resources for teaching English.
Writing the Research Paper: Multicultural Perspectives for Writing in English As a Second Language by
Covering both theoretical and practical approaches, Writing the Research Paper guides students studying in English as a second or additional language through the skills necessary for success in university-level writing and research.
The Skin That We Speak by
A fresh, cutting-edge work, The Skin that We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly-charged war of idioms - in which English only 'means standard English only - and provides teachers and parents with a thoughtful exploration of the varieties of English spoken and the layers of politics, power and identity that those forms carry.'
Classroom Research for Language Teachers by
Why should English language teachers conduct classroom research? As teachers gain experience, they instinctively want to learn more about their practice, the profession, and ways to contribute to the field. The way to dig deeper into their passion for teaching is through researching their own classroom contexts. This easy-to-follow guide demystifies the process of classroom research and gives teachers the confidence to get started, plan a project, collect data, publish findings, and then continue to enjoy the empowering energy of researching and learning. Open the book; begin your journey as a teacher-researcher.
Teaching and Developing Writing Skills by
This book offers a wealth of ideas and activities to practise and develop writing skills. It introduces different approaches to teaching writing, managing writing lessons and giving feedback. It covers all language levels from A1 to C2 and explores a range of writing contexts and text types, helping learners to write effectively for exams, share information and ideas in academic situations and the workplace, and navigate everyday situations such as completing forms.