Can anybody recommend a practical general methodology book?

cftranslate · Post by **cftranslate** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:53 am

Not a book filled with theories but, rather, a book to make your teaching more effective with good examples of best practices and comprehensive, dealing with all aspects of the daily routine in the foreign language class.

Is there one that has become standard in good teacher training courses and is updated?

Thanks

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:19 am

I tried to boil things down to just a few recommendations towards the end of the following thread:
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/teacher/v ... 2637#12637

There are few if any US-published books in the above thread - it's just, I'm from the UK and can therefore relate that little bit more to what British writers have to say (and how they say it) in the context of ELT or EFL especially.

Some reviews from the ELT News ELT Book Reviews archives:
http://www.eltnews.com/features/eltbooks/001.shtml
http://www.eltnews.com/features/eltbooks/030.shtml

Practical English Language Teaching
David Nunan, editor. 2003. McGraw-Hill (ELT News review)
I work with a lot of new teachers: graduating students who are soon going into their own classroom, JALT & ETJ members who don't have a lot of formal training but want to improve their skills. This is an introductory methodology text that I think has a good balance of theory and practical advice. An interesting thing about it is that all the people who wrote chapters are academics who are also successful authors of classroom material. The idea being that this is some guarantee that they can actually write, not always a given in academia. By the way, Peter is right about lending books. This is only a couple years old and think I'm on my third copy. (Full disclosure: I have a chapter in this book but so do a lot of other people). >>>
http://www.eltnews.com/features/thinktank/039_2mh.shtml