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Links to Articles for Teachers on ESL Teaching Methodologies
Pronunciation
(intonation, word and sentence stress, connected speech, etc.)
Speaking
- Task-based speaking
- Teaching speaking skills 2: overcoming classroom problems
- Teaching-speaking-skills-1
- Getting students to ask questions
- Learning how to fish: Fostering Fluency & Independence
Reading
- Motivating pupils to read
- A Comparison of L1 and L2 Reading: Cultural Differences and Schema
- Reading Loud and Clear: Uses and abuses of reading aloud in ELT
- Reading with a purpose: Communicative reading tasks for the foreign language classroom
Listening
- A framework for planning a listening skills lesson
- Listening in Language Learning – David Nunan
- Pronunciation - what are the expectations?
Vocabulary Development
- Remembering vocabulary
- Building vocabulary through prefixes and suffixes
- Collocations - Pedagogical implications, and their treatment in pedagogical materials
- Creative Vocabulary Teaching - within the course book-led English Language Classroom
- Teaching Vocabulary to Advanced Students: A Lexical Approach
- Technical Vocabulary in Specialized Texts – T.M. Chung and P. Nation
- Vocabulary Size, Text Coverage and Word Lists – Paul Nation and Robert Waring
Writing
- Planning a writing lesson
- Helping ESL Writers Grow
- How to be an Effective EFL Writing Teacher
- Providing Feedback on ESL Students’ Written Assignments
Grammar
- Grammar FROM Context: Re-thinking the Teaching of Grammar at Various Proficiency Levels
- Grammar, Grammars and Intuitions in ELT: A second opinion
- MINDING OUR Ps: A framework for grammar teaching
- Passive grammar: We’ve got it, let’s use it!
- Grammar and Its Teaching: Challenging the Myths
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Changing The Paradigm For Medical English Language Teaching
- How is English for Specific Purposes (ESP) different from English as a Second Language (ESL), also known as general English?
Teacher Education and Development
- Standards and Development in ELT
- More than ‘mere’ language teachers
- My methodology
- The shape of the language teacher
- Shopping at the ELT market: Principled decisions and practices
- 20 great teaching tips
On-line preparatory materials for the RSA/Cambridge Diploma and Certificate Courses (CELTA; DELTA)
Materials evaluation and adaptation
- The coursebook as a flexible tool: Materials evaluation and adaptation
- Materials evaluation and adaptation: A case study of pronunciation teaching
- Materials evaluation and adaptation: A case study of grammar teaching
Discourse analysis for language teachers
The Internet as a teaching/learning tool
- Enhancing Authentic Language Learning Experiences Through Internet Technology
- Internet for language teachers
- Interactive language learning on the Web
- More than just the Internet: Technology for language teaching
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