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[erinyes]

Students like text books too - students like focus, and logical progression, and something to use in the future to revise from.

[Gregor]

Moore wrote:

[vikdk]

if you have to teach the very young - for example in the Asian markets - take a book on early learning development along. Having at least an idea of how a child learns in in tandem with it's developement helps the process of teaching enormously!!

by the way beware of some of the bigger chain operators out there, such as EF (English First) - they seem to be only interested in developing income in tandem to minimum company output - and any any focus on the actually well being of small children in these companies is vigorously brushed under the carpet A decent knowledge of why and how a child learns also should helps real teachers argue their way through the inevitable professional insult that these companies throw up in the name of profit.

good handy (weighs under 10kg) books on this subject should surely include - david wood's ... How Children Think and Learn

isbn 0-631-20007-x

[SueH]

[darkside1]

'Getting the b*ggers to behave' by Sue Cowley is useful for anyone tackling Young Learners teaching for the first time.

[Justin Trullinger]

I had a great technique/theory book on teaching English to kids, called "Teaching Kids English." Regrettably, I lent it to somebody, and don't clearly remember who...nor the Author or publisher.

Help? anybody know it?

Or if anybody reading this has inadvertently borrowed and kept it....


Justin

[some waygug-in]

One thing with coursebooks that I think has been overlooked here is that, especially when dealing with young learners, it is often helpful and very necessary to review what you have covered in previous classes.

Coursebooks make this a very simple matter.

It is also easier to keep track of what students have done.


Kids need brightly colored pictures, goofy drawings, logic puzzles and a combination of things that course books can bring together (if they are decent books).

I generally find coursebooks by Oxford to be much more useful to me as a teacher than books by Longman. Actually, I think Longman has put out some of the worst books on the market. Even their better series pale in comparison to the Oxford kids' books.

Whichever book you use, you need to suppliment it with your own ideas as well as things from the students' environment.

[Moore]

True, it also helps as you can get a rough idea what the previous teachers have (theoretically) already covered when taking over a class.

[Aramas]

The Oxford Dictionary. It has nifty words like 'indispensible', which are infinitely preferable to MTV dialect abominations such as 'must-have'.

[fluffyhamster]

[jpvanderwerf2001]

I've found "Instant Discussions" and "Discussions A-Z" to be helpful books in the classroom; I use them almost daily. They have relatively interesting topics and ideas around which to plan the class, and you'll find much of the grammar is inherently found; also they're useful sources of pertinent vocabulary. Both can be found easily on
www.amazon.com
Good luck!