This book is an essential resource for teachers who work in challenging circumstances, which might include formal education systems in the developing or developed world and informal or non-formal teac...

This concise book is authored by the highly-regarded educator and author, Carol Read and draws on her significant expertise in teaching children aged 6-12. It considers all aspects of children´s devel...

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...

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...

In this accessible book, Nicky Hockly draws on her extensive personal experience, along with relevant research and theory, to provide practical guidance on the effective implementation of learning tec...

A compact, user-friendly reference book, investigating current trends in ELT. Trends are wide-ranging and include topics such as plurilingualism, wellbeing, digital literacies, metacognition, flipped ...

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 ...

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...

Alan Maley´s 50 Creative Activities is a collection of 50 classroom activities designed to promote creative language use. It is based on the premise that one of the major benefits of fostering creativ...

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 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...

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...

A compact, user-friendly reference book which draws from up-to-date research and theories from psychology to offer teachers with practical tips for small changes which they can make to their practice ...

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...

A compact, user-friendly reference book addressing many of the kinds of questions about grammar that regularly confront teachers, both novice and experienced, when planning or executing their lessons....

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...

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

In this accessible book, Jeremy Harmer draws on his extensive experience of communicative language teaching to provide 50 tried and tested classroom activities to help you develop your learners´ langu...

* A Course In Language Teaching provides a comprehensive basic introduction to teaching languages, for use in pre-service or early experience settings. * It can be used by groups of teachers worki...

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 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...

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...