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TokyoLiz
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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Fion wrote -
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| For your first year's teaching, you could do worse than stick to Headway right through. It's reasonable for most students (unless they have very specialized needs) and also gives the new teacher a decent grounding in both grammar and teaching methods. |
I've never seen it put that way, but yes, the Headway series has such a clear progression from presentation to practice. It's a great model for teaching a lesson. I relied heavily on Headway, both the British original and the American Headway series when I was teaching International program English.
Add to that the Reward books. They need some adaptation sometimes, but each unit is clearly laid out and the supplementary activity books are useful whether you use the student book or not. |
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Stephen
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Chomsky's work in grammar is pretty influential. He suggested that we have an innate capacity to aquire grammar up to the age of 5; however, if we do not get the opportunity to acquire it by then (ie. sufficient exposure to L1), then we will never fully acquire the ability to do so. There is some evidence to support this view (eg. the case of Genie see http://kccesl.tripod.com/genie.html but note this is not a happy story).
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