Write about a 'how to' book that you found & like. Why do you like it? Discuss an activity you came across in it that you would like to use in one of your classrooms.
I like the “Essential Teacher Knowledge: Core Concepts in English Language Teaching” book by Jeremy Hammer. This book is Written for teachers or people who would like to teach English. It consists of 110 units about English language and how to use it. The book comes with the DVD that shows how the teachers teach in the real situation. It also have an example of lesson plan that teacher can look at or use it in their teaching. For me, I really love the checklist questions for planning the lesson plan. There are 9 planning areas and 27 checklist items for teachers to keep in mind or ask ourselves. One particular planning area that I am interested in is “ lesson feel”. The example of the checklist items include “What is the whole lesson look/feel?” “What is the best way to start the lesson?” and “What is the most effective way of ending the lesson?”. I wish that I could see this checklist before planning my teaching lesson which I will teach in this afternoon.
The checklists for planning and reminding to ask questions would be useful for the teacher. The aspect of feeling is also interesting. It would be good if the teacher pay attention in emotional responses as well.
I really like that you mentioned about lesson feel. It sounds good if the students can express how they feel. They can release some tension in case of the have.
It is a great book, and I definitely recommend you to check it out. The lesson feel has 3 checklist items for teacher to prepare the lesson. He or she has to think about how to his or her want the lesson to feel, so he or she can prepare the learning lesson to match with the lesson feel.
Dear David and Friends, I come across with nice two books that I may use some hints and strategies in the books in my later on English teaching. The first one is ETpedia: Materials Writing, 500 Ideas for creating English language materials. This book was written by Lindsay Clandfield and John Huges (2017). The book gives many creative ideas for writing language exercises and different types of questions in teaching all 4 skills. The book also provides worksheets for the teachers to be applied in their teaching class. For example, in writing reading comprehensive questions, in order to check if the students understand the reading text, the book suggests 10 main types of comprehensive questions. 1. True/False statements 2. Answer Yes, No, or Don't know 3. Open questions 4. Multiple choice 5. Note taking 6. Writing in the missing word 7. Remove sentences 8. Gapped text 9. Summarize the paragraph 10. Summarize using key words. I found that the book is very nice written and organized with many useful tips and ideas. It is a charming book for teachers, who sometimes run out of the ideas what to prepare and how to teach and quiz students. Khead/Wiriya PS. I went further to find similar books online. Luckily, I found one written in 2014 from the same authors :).
The other one is Teaching Online: Tools and Techniques, options and Opportunities (2010) by Nicky Hocky and Lindsay Clandfield. Nowadays, teaching online is getting more and more utilized by nearly all areas of education. Teaching English online has no exception. This book, therefore, is a nice start for the teachers interested in teaching online. The book provides online resources and strategies to be used in the online teaching for all 4 skills. Khead/Wiriya
Congratulations Khead that you can find things attracted you. Ten types of comprehensive questions are like a guide for the teachers to prepare our teaching.
I think this "ETpedia: Materials Writing, 500 Ideas for creating English language materials" is important for teachers to create their classes more interesting.
I am really interested in "ETpedia 1,000 ideas for English language teachers". This excellent resource provides 1,000 tips, techniques, questions, thoughts and ideas for teachers to use for both in class and to prepare lessons in advanced.
Each section covers a different aspect of teaching e.g. grammar, listening, speaking, games, etc. One activity that I came across from this fabulous textbook is Unit 30: 10 Types of exercise for functional expressions". This unit introduces 10 simple and fun exercises for helping students to increase their understanding about useful phases and expressions.
1. Categories the expression by the function. “Are these expressions offers or requests? Write O (offer) or R (request)”
2. Re-order the words “Write these expressions in the correct order.”
3. Gapfill the missing verb. “Write the missing verb.”
4. Complete a conversation with a phases “Write the expressions in the conversation”
5. Reorder the conversation “Put the sentences into the correct order.”
6. Match the two halves of a sentence “Match 1-5 to A-E”
7. Give the first letter “Complete these expressions.”
8. Match the questions to the response “Match 1-5 to A-E”
9. Giving a choice “Tick the polite response.”
10. Students personalise the expressions “Complete the expressions with your own words.”
I really love this resource and I wish I could have take it back with me to Thailand. That would be awesome!
Sounds like a particularly useful resource. The list of activities to stimulate students to explore speech acts is a smart one. I have used lots of these activities myself. :-)
I found this book is very useful as well. 1,000 tips are enough for enhancing teacher to have effective classes and improving students to have higher English skills.
Many people like this book. I will make my class more interesting with "ETpedia: Materials Writing, 500 Ideas for creating English language materials". Thank you for sharing.
I have read about teaching tips for developing creative thinking. The writer raised twenty activities to do. "Thirty things I did" is the one I like. This is suit for the students in pre-intermediate level. The lesson should be focused on past simple tense, vocabulary, and writing. The activity takes time about fifteen minutes. The teacher asks students to write ten sentences about what they did over the weekend. If the students say "10?", the teacher will say "not 10, but 20". If the student say "20!", the teacher will say "Oh, not 20, then 25!". Play game until the students get the message that the more complain, the more work. The advantages of this activity are writing, learning about past simple, and thinking. I will take this activity back into my classes. I may change the tense, such as present perfect tense and future tense. The writer recommended that it can be applied to stimulate the students' brains. For example, the teacher ask the student to write down ten reasons why someone might not answer their phone (English phone speaking).
Hi Luck, It is very nice to have this kind of books in the English teaching. I am interested in teaching for creative and critical thinking because I think nursing students should have these skills a lot. Khead
"THE LAUGHING CLASSROOM" If you are a teacher, congratulation! this book is for you. IT's a guide to help you reawaken your playful, spontaneous self, which my have gotten lost somewhere between correcting the papers and collecting the paycheck. It's a plea for play-an appeal for you to tap your funny bone-not just on weekends or during vacations, but during your teachingday,when you have the most influence and power.
Thnak you Ae for giving me some ideas in making happy classroom. The laughing classroom is interesting. You must learn a lot about playing game in the classroom.
I have selected books related games and how to encourage learners to learn English. I really like the book "Motivating Learning" written by Jill Hadfield and Zoltan Dornyei. This is because this book explain various ways or activities to motivate students to learn English language. The ways or activities are illustrated in 1 or 2 pages which include topic, aim, level, time, materials, preparation, and also procedure (quite easy to follow).
Hi Ooie, Thank you for sharing about how to motivate the students to learn English. After reading the book, you may have some ideas in motivating your students in studying English.Some of my students don't like English. The feel afraid of speaking with the foreign English. Sometimes they skip the class. It would be good if I can learn more from you about creating safety zone and motivating them.
Sounds like a cool resource. Jill Hadfield is one of my favourite activity book writers! Can you discuss one of your favourite activities from the book? :-)
'How to teach English' by Jeremy Harmer. I like this book because that tells me how to teach English covered all skills. It's can be applied as well as to explain the details to know about teaching. The content includes about Learners ,Teacher Managing classroom ,Describing learning and teaching ,Describing language ,Teaching the language system ,Teaching reading writing speaking and listening. And planning lessons and testing. I would like to use it in my classroom...
After reading this book, you knew more about teaching techniques and measurement. I am interested in testing as well. May I learn from you about testing? Thank you.
Dear David, From reviewing "how to" resource books for English language teaching today, "Techniques in Teaching Writing" is one of the books that I like. I mostly like this book because it is provided entirely to the presentation and exemplification of practical techniques in the teaching of writing. Each chapter contains various techniques and example activities that teachers can perform that tie the content of the book directly to the teachers' responsibilities in their classes. I think one of the techniques that I can use in my writing class is "techniques in using pictures." I can use a set of pictures such as events or festivals and then ask my students to write and share about their experiences relating to the pictures in the classroom. I hope my students will love this activity.
Using pictures in teaching writing is interesting. Did the writer describe about the number of words suitable for students studying in different levels? Thank you.
Sounds like a useful resource. I believe pictures indeed have a lot of potential in the classroom as a stimulus for writing. To make the most of them though, requires careful planning. :-)
Thanks a lot for you comments, David. I totally agree with you that to make the most of using pictures for the writing class needs to careful planning;)
The book that I like is Developing Reading Skills: A practical comprehension exercise written by francoise Grellet. The book was first published in 1981, and the tenth printing was in 1990. This sound popular among reader. This book describes the main ways of reading consisting of skimming, scanning, extensive reading and intensive reading. The author also gives various examples of reading comprehension as follows: reading techniques, how the aim to conveyed, understand meaning and assessing the text. The examples show specific aim, skills involved and the task. This book is useful for teachers and someone who want to produce their own English teaching materials. They can create new materials which are suitable for the students they teach. I will utilize those methods to have my own materials for my classroom.
Interesting resource! Reading this book would also give you a useful awareness of the function of various reading comprehension question types in published materials. :-)
Reading skill is one of the challenging skills to teach in English class. I will check this book out for some techniques that I can use in my clas. Thanks for sharing.
Dear David, Something went wrong with my account! My posted yesterday disappeared. So, here I am again. My book of choice is called "Lessons for Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources” by Bruce Marsland. I am interested in this book because it has a wide range of activities. There are loads of creative ideas that teachers can easily adapt for their teaching. One of my favourite activities is “Giving a present”. It allows students to practice how to use sentences, such as “I would give a…………..to……………because………….”. The students have to write these sentences in one side of card and their friend’s name on the other side. Then, they need to approach their friend and tell him/her. The teacher observes and pick up some good or not so good conversation and explain it to the class. It is easy to apply with a big class. It can be applied with other tenses as well. I think if my students are in advanced level, they can describe more about the present. Busy teachers would love to read this book.
Thanks for sharing! I think 'controlled practice' activities such as the one you described can be useful tools to build student confidence and competence. :-)
I had a chance to look at one of the most effective resources for teaching English called “Penny Ur’s 100 Teaching Tips”. My favourite quotation from this resource is “Games that involve engaging with the language are useful for raising motivation, especially thought not only for younger classes. But they need to be carefully selected or designed to make sure they do in fact work: that they are both “gamcy’ and learning-rich.”
Regarding this resource, there are tips of using games in teaching. 1. Teachers have to make sure to pick the game that is fun. 2. Teachers have to check that the games are learning-rich. 3. Teachers have to make sure that the games can involve all students.
I am interested in the book titled ‘Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking’ written by I. S. P. Nation and J. Newton published in 2009. I like this book because it is well written and organized. The authors guides teachers how to teach listening and speaking effectively. The book provides comprehensible principles of teaching listening and speaking skills to students; a variety of teaching listening and speaking techniques; and development fluency in both techniques. Moreover, how to monitor and test students’ progresses is suggested in this book. I would recommend teachers who plan to teach listening and speaking that they should read this book first. For me, I am particularly interested in a dictogloss technique developed from a traditional dictation activity. Although teachers have seldom used the dictation technique in teaching undergraduate classes because of its disadvantages, I found the dictogloss technique was interesting and helped to improve listening, speaking, writing, and reading skill among students in creative ways. I think this dictogloss technique is helpful and easily applied to my nursing classes. It also build students’ personal and team learning. So I plan to apply the dictogloss technique to my future nursing class.
The 'dictagloss' technique is pretty famous in English language teaching circles for stimulating students to focus on grammatical correctness. Can you tell us how the technique works?
Thank you, David for giving more explanation about dictogloss. Here are some links for dictogloss: https://ealresources.bell-foundation.org.uk/information/great-idea-dictogloss; http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/dictogloss. However, I will not use dictogloss for grammar in my nursing classes. I will apply this technique and put nursing content instead.
It sounds to be a really good resource for learning speaking and listening. Personally, I have experienced that many Thai learners are not very confident when it comes to speaking, so this book could be helpful for both teachers and learners.
Thank you for sharing, Go. Dictation technique is simple, however it help the students in improving listening, writing, and remembering vocabulary. I also like it.
Vocabulary in Action by Linda Taylor Publisher: Prentice Hall (February 1, 1992)
I prefer to use this book regarding its activities are useful in all level of English classroom.
The writer organises the content to 11 sections. Each section shows and describes each activity in deail. The teacher can apply those activities by little amendedment.
In page structure and content, the writer provide the definitions and give suffient details.For example, Mother tounge equivalence, the writer refer to the learner schema to start learning new vocabulary. The learner can link their knowledge to new knowledge. In addition, this activity also shows respect to the learners. It allows the learner to achieve their target without hesitate or mother languange is banned in classroom.There are still some more positive aspect fro the book therfore I will fine the hard copy and pout in to thelibrary.
The activity in this book are useful as same as teacher have the value material in their hands. I would like to show one activity for example. This activity is in Mother tongue equivalence section under activity 1 Marks on paper. This activity is suitable for Elementary to advanced, especially mixed-nationality groups. There are no restriction with the ages therefore I assume I can use it for all. This activity is fleible enough to work in individuality, pairs, group, or whole class.
I didn't have time to check this book out but from what you described, I am positive that it is an excellent resource for teaching and learning vocabulary. :)
I like the “Essential Teacher Knowledge: Core Concepts in English Language Teaching” book by Jeremy Hammer. This book is Written for teachers or people who would like to teach English. It consists of 110 units about English language and how to use it. The book comes with the DVD that shows how the teachers teach in the real situation. It also have an example of lesson plan that teacher can look at or use it in their teaching. For me, I really love the checklist questions for planning the lesson plan. There are 9 planning areas and 27 checklist items for teachers to keep in mind or ask ourselves. One particular planning area that I am interested in is “ lesson feel”. The example of the checklist items include “What is the whole lesson look/feel?” “What is the best way to start the lesson?” and “What is the most effective way of ending the lesson?”. I wish that I could see this checklist before planning my teaching lesson which I will teach in this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Marisa. It sounds such a good book to me. If I have time, I will definitely go to check it out.
DeleteThe checklists for planning and reminding to ask questions would be useful for the teacher. The aspect of feeling is also interesting. It would be good if the teacher pay attention in emotional responses as well.
DeleteI really like that you mentioned about lesson feel. It sounds good if the students can express how they feel. They can release some tension in case of the have.
DeleteIt is a great book, and I definitely recommend you to check it out. The lesson feel has 3 checklist items for teacher to prepare the lesson. He or she has to think about how to his or her want the lesson to feel, so he or she can prepare the learning lesson to match with the lesson feel.
DeleteWhat a cool resource. After reading your post I think I want to check it out as well! :-)
DeleteHi Marisa,
DeleteThank you so much for your sharing. I think we can understand how to be a good teacher from this book.
Thank you for sharing. I interest in this book. If I have time, I will find it to read.
DeleteI had a chance to look in this resource too and I totally agree with you that it is really useful!
DeleteI think this is one of books I am looking for. Thank you for sharing Marisa.
DeleteThank you for a book review. I think we can draw some activities and modify them for our classes.
DeleteDear David and Friends,
ReplyDeleteI come across with nice two books that I may use some hints and strategies in the books in my later on English teaching.
The first one is ETpedia: Materials Writing, 500 Ideas for creating English language materials. This book was written by Lindsay Clandfield and John Huges (2017). The book gives many creative ideas for writing language exercises and different types of questions in teaching all 4 skills. The book also provides worksheets for the teachers to be applied in their teaching class. For example, in writing reading comprehensive questions, in order to check if the students understand the reading text, the book suggests 10 main types of comprehensive questions.
1. True/False statements
2. Answer Yes, No, or Don't know
3. Open questions
4. Multiple choice
5. Note taking
6. Writing in the missing word
7. Remove sentences
8. Gapped text
9. Summarize the paragraph
10. Summarize using key words.
I found that the book is very nice written and organized with many useful tips and ideas. It is a charming book for teachers, who sometimes run out of the ideas what to prepare and how to teach and quiz students.
Khead/Wiriya
PS. I went further to find similar books online. Luckily, I found one written in 2014 from the same authors :).
The other one is Teaching Online: Tools and Techniques, options and Opportunities (2010) by Nicky Hocky and Lindsay Clandfield. Nowadays, teaching online is getting more and more utilized by nearly all areas of education. Teaching English online has no exception. This book, therefore, is a nice start for the teachers interested in teaching online. The book provides online resources and strategies to be used in the online teaching for all 4 skills.
DeleteKhead/Wiriya
Interesting! I wish I can have these books available at my college. Then, I can use them to prepare various activities for my students.
DeleteCongratulations Khead that you can find things attracted you. Ten types of comprehensive questions are like a guide for the teachers to prepare our teaching.
DeleteSounds like an excellent resource, one you could come back to time & time again! :-)
DeleteThese two books sound very interesting. Both teachers and students should read them.
DeleteI agree. I wish I could take this book back to Thailand with me. :)
DeleteThanks for sharing. It is importance for all teacher.
DeleteI think this "ETpedia: Materials Writing, 500 Ideas for creating English language materials" is important for teachers to create their classes more interesting.
DeleteDear David and all,
ReplyDeleteI am really interested in "ETpedia 1,000 ideas for English language teachers". This excellent resource provides 1,000 tips, techniques, questions, thoughts and ideas for teachers to use for both in class and to prepare lessons in advanced.
Each section covers a different aspect of teaching e.g. grammar, listening, speaking, games, etc. One activity that I came across from this fabulous textbook is Unit 30: 10 Types of exercise for functional expressions". This unit introduces 10 simple and fun exercises for helping students to increase their understanding about useful phases and expressions.
1. Categories the expression by the function.
“Are these expressions offers or requests? Write O (offer) or R (request)”
2. Re-order the words
“Write these expressions in the correct order.”
3. Gapfill the missing verb.
“Write the missing verb.”
4. Complete a conversation with a phases
“Write the expressions in the conversation”
5. Reorder the conversation
“Put the sentences into the correct order.”
6. Match the two halves of a sentence
“Match 1-5 to A-E”
7. Give the first letter
“Complete these expressions.”
8. Match the questions to the response
“Match 1-5 to A-E”
9. Giving a choice
“Tick the polite response.”
10. Students personalise the expressions
“Complete the expressions with your own words.”
I really love this resource and I wish I could have take it back with me to Thailand. That would be awesome!
Best Regards,
Nami
Nami,
DeleteWe have the same interest :). The book is quite nice, isn't it? If we were here longer, we would be very fluent in teaching English.
Khead
Hi Nami,
DeleteThank you for sharing. It looks like you get the whole picture of teaching English. I can learn from you.
Thanks a lot for sharing, Nami. After reading your post, I would like to go through this book by myself. It sounds such a good book to me.
DeleteSounds like a particularly useful resource. The list of activities to stimulate students to explore speech acts is a smart one. I have used lots of these activities myself.
Delete:-)
I found this book is very useful as well. 1,000 tips are enough for enhancing teacher to have effective classes and improving students to have higher English skills.
DeleteIt is a wonderful resource. If I have time,I will go to read.
DeleteMany people like this book. I will make my class more interesting with "ETpedia: Materials Writing, 500 Ideas for creating English language materials". Thank you for sharing.
DeleteThank you all for your comments. :)
DeleteGreat!, I prefer to bring the topic “Tick the polite response.” to our students.
DeleteI have read about teaching tips for developing creative thinking. The writer raised twenty activities to do. "Thirty things I did" is the one I like. This is suit for the students in pre-intermediate level. The lesson should be focused on past simple tense, vocabulary, and writing. The activity takes time about fifteen minutes. The teacher asks students to write ten sentences about what they did over the weekend. If the students say "10?", the teacher will say "not 10, but 20". If the student say "20!", the teacher will say "Oh, not 20, then 25!". Play game until the students get the message that the more complain, the more work. The advantages of this activity are writing, learning about past simple, and thinking. I will take this activity back into my classes. I may change the tense, such as present perfect tense and future tense. The writer recommended that it can be applied to stimulate the students' brains. For example, the teacher ask the student to write down ten reasons why someone might not answer their phone (English phone speaking).
ReplyDeleteI like the activity regarding '10 reasons why someone might not answer the phone.' This activity would stimulate a lot of creative thinking. :-)
DeleteHi Luck,
DeleteIt is very nice to have this kind of books in the English teaching. I am interested in teaching for creative and critical thinking because I think nursing students should have these skills a lot.
Khead
I agree with you. Having critical thinking is necessary for both teachers and students. That is great if this book can answer how to improve it.
DeleteVery good technique indeed. I think I will let give it a try with this technique in my class. :)
DeleteThanks Luck, I would love to have creative thinking myself and teach my students to build up this skill too.
DeleteSound interesting! I wish I could have a chance to look at this book.
Delete"THE LAUGHING CLASSROOM" If you are a teacher, congratulation! this book is for you. IT's a guide to help you reawaken your playful, spontaneous self, which my have gotten lost somewhere between correcting the papers and collecting the paycheck. It's a plea for play-an appeal for you to tap your funny bone-not just on weekends or during vacations, but during your teachingday,when you have the most influence and power.
ReplyDeleteThnak you Ae for giving me some ideas in making happy classroom. The laughing classroom is interesting. You must learn a lot about playing game in the classroom.
DeleteSounds interesting. Can you describe the activity in it that you found most fascinating? :-)
DeleteYes, Ae, it sounds interesting. I really want to make my classroom laugh a lot too. Most of the time, I don't know how!
DeleteKhead
The name of this book interest me. I think how much nice if teachers and students have a laughing classroom. Don't miss this book.
DeleteInteresting! I am looking for strategies to create a class atmosphere. What does this book suggest about how to make the class laughing?
DeleteI have selected books related games and how to encourage learners to learn English. I really like the book "Motivating Learning" written by Jill Hadfield and Zoltan Dornyei. This is because this book explain various ways or activities to motivate students to learn English language. The ways or activities are illustrated in 1 or 2 pages which include topic, aim, level, time, materials, preparation, and also procedure (quite easy to follow).
ReplyDeleteHi Ooie,
DeleteThank you for sharing about how to motivate the students to learn English. After reading the book, you may have some ideas in motivating your students in studying English.Some of my students don't like English. The feel afraid of speaking with the foreign English. Sometimes they skip the class. It would be good if I can learn more from you about creating safety zone and motivating them.
Sounds like a cool resource. Jill Hadfield is one of my favourite activity book writers! Can you discuss one of your favourite activities from the book? :-)
DeleteI really believe that "motivation" is a power for successful learning. Great resource!
DeleteHow to motivate students to learn happily is one of the most important things for teachers. I think this book will be useful for that.
DeleteI like this book, too. Applying a variety of activities to motivate students to learn English language.
Delete'How to teach English' by Jeremy Harmer. I like this book because that tells me how to teach English covered all skills. It's can be applied as well as to explain the details to know about teaching. The content includes about Learners ,Teacher Managing classroom ,Describing learning and teaching ,Describing language ,Teaching the language system ,Teaching reading writing speaking and listening. And planning lessons and testing.
ReplyDeleteI would like to use it in my classroom...
After reading this book, you knew more about teaching techniques and measurement. I am interested in testing as well. May I learn from you about testing? Thank you.
DeleteHarmer has a good knowledge of English language teaching. I enjoy his books. You can find some practical ideas within them.
Delete:-)
This sounds very enthusiastic. I hope you enjoy looking through this material. I will check it out myself too.
DeleteThanks Nokk (2K). I will have a look through this book.
DeleteGreat book. All in one book. The part"Teacher Managing classroom" interests me. Thank you for sharing, Nokk
DeleteDear David,
ReplyDeleteFrom reviewing "how to" resource books for English language teaching today, "Techniques in Teaching Writing" is one of the books that I like. I mostly like this book because it is provided entirely to the presentation and exemplification of practical techniques in the teaching of writing. Each chapter contains various techniques and example activities that teachers can perform that tie the content of the book directly to the teachers' responsibilities in their classes. I think one of the techniques that I can use in my writing class is "techniques in using pictures." I can use a set of pictures such as events or festivals and then ask my students to write and share about their experiences relating to the pictures in the classroom. I hope my students will love this activity.
Best Regards,
Wi.
That sounds interesting, Wi. I sometimes use pictures as well and it is really good. You can find a lot of free pictures on Google.
DeleteHi Wi,
DeleteUsing pictures in teaching writing is interesting. Did the writer describe about the number of words suitable for students studying in different levels? Thank you.
Sounds like a useful resource. I believe pictures indeed have a lot of potential in the classroom as a stimulus for writing. To make the most of them though, requires careful planning. :-)
DeleteThanks a lot for you comments, David. I totally agree with you that to make the most of using pictures for the writing class needs to careful planning;)
DeleteThis resource sounds very interesting and I am positive that it must be a good material for teaching writing. :)
DeleteThe book that I like is Developing Reading Skills: A practical comprehension exercise written by francoise Grellet. The book was first published in 1981, and the tenth printing was in 1990. This sound popular among reader.
ReplyDeleteThis book describes the main ways of reading consisting of skimming, scanning, extensive reading and intensive reading. The author also gives various examples of reading comprehension as follows: reading techniques, how the aim to conveyed, understand meaning and assessing the text. The examples show specific aim, skills involved and the task.
This book is useful for teachers and someone who want to produce their own English teaching materials. They can create new materials which are suitable for the students they teach. I will utilize those methods to have my own materials for my classroom.
Nam, please share them with me if you finish creating your materials :)
DeleteSome of my students don't like reading. It's good that you can find the knowledge in how to improve reading skills. I will learn from you.
DeleteInteresting resource! Reading this book would also give you a useful awareness of the function of various reading comprehension question types in published materials. :-)
DeleteThank you so much for sharing. I found a variety of how to make effective lessons for my classes.
DeleteReading skill is one of the challenging skills to teach in English class. I will check this book out for some techniques that I can use in my clas. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteWe can apply some techniques from this book to improve our students'reading skill, too. Not only for English, but for nursing. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteDear David,
ReplyDeleteSomething went wrong with my account! My posted yesterday disappeared. So, here I am again. My book of choice is called "Lessons for Nothing: Activities for Language Teaching with Limited Time and Resources” by Bruce Marsland. I am interested in this book because it has a wide range of activities. There are loads of creative ideas that teachers can easily adapt for their teaching. One of my favourite activities is “Giving a present”. It allows students to practice how to use sentences, such as “I would give a…………..to……………because………….”. The students have to write these sentences in one side of card and their friend’s name on the other side. Then, they need to approach their friend and tell him/her. The teacher observes and pick up some good or not so good conversation and explain it to the class. It is easy to apply with a big class. It can be applied with other tenses as well. I think if my students are in advanced level, they can describe more about the present. Busy teachers would love to read this book.
Giving a present technique is interesting. I can learn from you. What you described is practical. Thank you.
DeleteThank's Luck for your comment. So, I know that you are one of busy teachers..:)
DeleteThanks for sharing! I think 'controlled practice' activities such as the one you described can be useful tools to build student confidence and competence. :-)
DeleteHi Nok,
DeleteI love the way what you described this book. That made me really want to read it for improving my classes.
Interesting book! I wish I could read it. I am looking for some class activities for teaching with limited time and resources, too.
DeleteDear David,
ReplyDeleteI had a chance to look at one of the most effective resources for teaching English called “Penny Ur’s 100 Teaching Tips”. My favourite quotation from this resource is “Games that involve engaging with the language are useful for raising motivation, especially thought not only for younger classes. But they need to be carefully selected or designed to make sure they do in fact work: that they are both “gamcy’ and learning-rich.”
Regarding this resource, there are tips of using games in teaching.
1. Teachers have to make sure to pick the game that is fun.
2. Teachers have to check that the games are learning-rich.
3. Teachers have to make sure that the games can involve all students.
With Regards,
Thunya
Nice tips for using games in the teaching. I will keep those in mind :).
DeleteWiriya
Thank you Thunya for sharing the tips. I will keep in mind that I should should the right games in teaching.
DeleteThanks for sharing. I like those 3 tips regarding games. They're useful to take into account. :-)
DeleteUsing games in teaching lessons is one of having the active learning classes. I really love to do games in my classrooms.
DeleteThank you for sharing. It it important for teachers to pick the game that is fun and learning-rich.
DeleteI am interested in the book titled ‘Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking’ written by I. S. P. Nation and J. Newton published in 2009. I like this book because it is well written and organized. The authors guides teachers how to teach listening and speaking effectively. The book provides comprehensible principles of teaching listening and speaking skills to students; a variety of teaching listening and speaking techniques; and development fluency in both techniques. Moreover, how to monitor and test students’ progresses is suggested in this book. I would recommend teachers who plan to teach listening and speaking that they should read this book first. For me, I am particularly interested in a dictogloss technique developed from a traditional dictation activity. Although teachers have seldom used the dictation technique in teaching undergraduate classes because of its disadvantages, I found the dictogloss technique was interesting and helped to improve listening, speaking, writing, and reading skill among students in creative ways. I think this dictogloss technique is helpful and easily applied to my nursing classes. It also build students’ personal and team learning. So I plan to apply the dictogloss technique to my future nursing class.
ReplyDeleteThe dictogloss technique is sound interesting. I would love to learn more about this technique so I can use with my students.
DeleteHi Go,
DeleteCould you please elaborate more about "dictogloss technique". I would love to know more. Thanks.
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Dictogloss? How to do it? Is it different from Dictating? You have to tell me more about it, Go. Thank you for your information.
DeleteThe 'dictagloss' technique is pretty famous in English language teaching circles for stimulating students to focus on grammatical correctness. Can you tell us how the technique works?
DeleteThank you, David for giving more explanation about dictogloss. Here are some links for dictogloss: https://ealresources.bell-foundation.org.uk/information/great-idea-dictogloss; http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/dictogloss. However, I will not use dictogloss for grammar in my nursing classes. I will apply this technique and put nursing content instead.
DeleteThis book sounds interesting. I think it will be useful for enhancing teachers and students skills in given lessons.
DeleteIt sounds to be a really good resource for learning speaking and listening. Personally, I have experienced that many Thai learners are not very confident when it comes to speaking, so this book could be helpful for both teachers and learners.
DeleteThank you for sharing, Go. Dictation technique is simple, however it help the students in improving listening, writing, and remembering vocabulary. I also like it.
ReplyDeleteVocabulary in Action by Linda Taylor
ReplyDeletePublisher: Prentice Hall (February 1, 1992)
I prefer to use this book regarding its activities are useful in all level of English classroom.
The writer organises the content to 11 sections. Each section shows and describes each activity in deail. The teacher can apply those activities by little amendedment.
In page structure and content, the writer provide the definitions and give suffient details.For example, Mother tounge equivalence, the writer refer to the learner schema to start learning new vocabulary. The learner can link their knowledge to new knowledge. In addition, this activity also shows respect to the learners. It allows the learner to achieve their target without hesitate or mother languange is banned in classroom.There are still some more positive aspect fro the book therfore I will fine the hard copy and pout in to thelibrary.
The activity in this book are useful as same as teacher have the value material in their hands. I would like to show one activity for example. This activity is in Mother tongue equivalence section under activity 1 Marks on paper. This activity is suitable for Elementary to advanced, especially mixed-nationality groups. There are no restriction with the ages therefore I assume I can use it for all. This activity is fleible enough to work in individuality, pairs, group, or whole class.
Mother tongue equivalence section sounds interesting. I think everyone would love to speak like native English. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteInteresting! How does the 'Marks on Paper' activity work? :-)
DeleteKnowing various vocabularies is very useful for students to improve their English skills. Thank you for your recommendations.
DeleteSuch a good book for improving vocabulary. It is also a good start before practice reading. Thank you for sharing.
DeleteI didn't have time to check this book out but from what you described, I am positive that it is an excellent resource for teaching and learning vocabulary. :)
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