Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher
eBook - ePub

Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher

About this book

Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher explores the skills that it takes to deliver exceptional language teaching and produce outstanding results. Offering support to all language teachers, this book offers a wide range of approaches to teaching and learning that will help to keep students stimulated and engaged when studying languages.

Focusing on the nuts and bolts of lessons and teaching sequences, this guide looks at the methods used by teachers to interact with their students and offers practical strategies and ideas on how to incorporate skilled questioning and other interactions into the classroom.

Drawing on a range of activities, case studies and tech tips to maximise engagement and learning, this book covers:

  • running a room;


  • dissecting a lesson: written texts, visuals and task-based approaches;


  • enjoying sounds;


  • dissecting a lesson: speaking and writing;


  • purposeful games;


  • getting grammatical;


  • words and chunks;


  • teaching all abilities;


  • pace, questioning and other interactions;


  • moving them forwards.


Packed full of strategies that are easy to implement, this timely new book is essential reading for both trainee and practising language teachers.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351676403
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Boxes
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Running a room
  12. 2 Dissecting a lesson: visuals
  13. 3 Dissecting a lesson: using written texts
  14. 4 Dissecting a lesson: task-based lessons
  15. 5 Enjoying sounds
  16. 6 Purposeful games
  17. 7 Getting grammatical
  18. 8 Words and chunks
  19. 9 Dissecting a lesson: speaking
  20. 10 Dissecting a lesson: writing
  21. 11 Teaching all abilities
  22. 12 Pace, questioning and other interactions
  23. 13 Moving them forward
  24. 14 What makes an outstanding language teacher?
  25. Conclusion
  26. Bibliography and further reading
  27. Index