Description
Book SynopsisBecoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher explores the skills that it takes to deliver exceptional language teaching and produce outstanding results. Written by a highly experienced teacher and teacher educator, this book provides a wide range of approaches to teaching, along with an abundance of practical classroom ideas.
This new edition keeps the focus on the nuts and bolts of planning lessons which will keep students engaged and stimulated when learning a language and features a new chapter on intercultural understanding, as well as updated information on the latest digital technology tools. Reference is made to tried and tested methodologies and classroom procedures, along with exciting new approaches which teachers have found productive. The book covers:
- how to run a room;
- dissecting lessons: written texts, aural texts and visuals;
- teacher-student interactions, communicative tasks and sentence-building;
- developing phonologica
Table of Contents
Introduction, 1. Running a languages classroom, 2. Dissecting lessons: visuals, 3. Dissecting lessons: using written texts, 4. Dissecting lessons: task-based lessons, 5. Enjoying sounds, 6. Purposeful games, 7. Getting grammatical, 8. Words and chunks, 9. Dissecting lessons: speaking, 10. Dissecting lessons: writing, 11. Teaching all abilities, 12. Teaching in the target language, 13. Moving them forwards, 14. Intercultural understanding, 15. Building your outstanding repertoire, Conclusion
