This Element provides an overview of research focusing on language teaching practices for young multilingual learners in primary classrooms in English-speaking contexts. The term ´young multilingual l...

The central aim of language teaching is typically to prepare learners to communicate through the language learnt. However, much current language teaching theory and practice is based on a simplistic v...

Tried and tested teaching tips for language teachers. This practical book, with its clear and accessible style, will be useful to many teachers, whether trainee, novice or experienced, in a variety of...

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers provide practical guidance and a wealth of activities for the language class-room. Each book includes a introduction to the topic covered, a wide range of act...

Innovative activities for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teachers and trainee teachers. CLIL Activities is organised into five chapters: Activating, Guiding understanding, Focus on l...

This book provides an accessible guide to concepts in language testing and the testing of specific skills and systems. It combines theory and practical recommendations to help teachers understand the ...

This book offers 50 practical ideas for teachers to use for professional development. The tips cover a wide range of activities that can be carried out individually or in collaboration with others, in...

David Crystal answers fifty questions about language usage, from general enquiries to specific points of grammar, pronunciation, orthography, vocabulary, idiom, and style. In this compact, user-friend...

* Teaching English Spelling is a resource book of supplementary activities for practising common patterns in English.

Using Newspapers in the Classroom is a collection of over 130 practical and creative newspaper-based activities to use with young adult and adult learners from pre-intermediate to advanced levels. The...

This text guides foreign and second language educators in the use of classroom-based assessment as a tool for improving both teaching and learning.

The field of task-based language teaching has developed considerably since the publication of Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989) a book which helped to set the research agen...

Cambridge Applied Linguistics presents the latest insights from work in applied linguistics in a form readily accessible to language teachers, researches, students of applied linguistics, course desig...

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers provide practical guidance and a wealth of activities for the language class-room. Each book includes a introduction to the topic covered, a wide range of act...

This book provides practical ideas to encourage students to llok at spoken language in different contexts throught the use of transcripts and authentic conversations. It will help them to identify wha...

This compact, user-friendly book draws on Mark Hancock´s wealth of experience and knowledge of the topic. It gives a broad overview of the practical issues and challenges involved in teaching pronunci...

The studies in this volume explore needs analysis in the public, vocational and academic sectors, in contexts ranging from service encounters in coffee shops to foreign language needs assessment in th...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the area of sucessful language learning strategies and reviews the literature and research on this subject to date. The book provides a refe...

Cambridge Applied Linguistics presents the latest insights from work in applied linguistics in a form readily accessible to language teachers, researches, students of applied linguistics, course desig...

Keep Talking is a detailed practical guide to communication activities for the ELT classroom. Instructions are given for over 100 different activities, including interviews, guessing games, role play ...

Cambridge Teacher Training and Development series is designed for use by people involved in teacher training and education programmes. Materials in the series contribute both theoretical and practical...

´Teach English´ is a teacher training course that develops practical skills in the teaching of English as a second language. It can be used in a variety of situations; in-service courses for teachers ...

* Testing Spoken Language is a handbook for oral testing techniques.

Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers provide practical guidance and a wealth of activities for the language class-room. Each book includes a introduction to the topic covered, a wide range of act...

Dictation contains a wealth of new techniques to extend the traditional language-learning activity of dictation. The authors present some thought-provoking answers to such apparently simple questions ...

This text provides a detailed account of current approaches to the education of teachers of second languages. The paperback edition provides a detailed account of current approaches to the education o...

This second edition is an extensive revision of this successful text. Like the first edition, it surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching, such as grammar translation, audiolingua...

A variety of imaginative techniques for integrating literature work with language learning. This is a practical guide for practising teachers of English and teachers in training. It offers teachers a...

Cambridge Language Teaching Library provides a forum for exploration of central issues in language teaching and learning. The series is addressed to an audience of experienced teachers, as well as to ...

English for Specific Purposes offers the teacher a new perspective on this important field. The main concern is effective learning and how this can best be achieved in ESP courses. The authors discuss...

Cambridge Language Teaching Library provides a forum for exploration of central issues in language teaching and learning. The series is addressed to an audience of experienced teachers, as well as to ...

Teachers who are making the transition into management need to gain expertise in specialist areas such as personnel, marketing and finance. This book provides an introduction to these three areas, a s...