Anne Paton, Meryl Wilkins

Teaching Adult ESOL: Principles and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is one of the few books to effectively blend together research, theory and practical pedagogy and link this directly with the context of teaching English to adults. There are reflective tasks throughout, which encourage you to develop and apply your theoretical knowledge to your own experiences.

Produktdetails

• Developing Adult Skills
• Verlag: Open University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780335237388
• ISBN-10: 033523738X
• Artikelnr.: 26553083

Autorenporträt

Anne Paton has run in-service and pre-service courses for ESOL teachers and has also worked as ESOL co-ordinator on the PGCE/Cert Ed in Adult Literacy/ESOL at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. Meryl Wilkins has worked as a teacher trainer at Westminster Kingsway College and more recently as a Professional Development Worker at LLU+ at London South Bank University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One ESOL and society
ESOL learners
ESOL in the UK education system
Language and context in ESOL teaching
Second language acquisition (SLA) and the contexts of ESOL UK practice
Part Two Teaching and learning ESOL
The spoken language
The written word
Developing accuracy
Developing and adapting resources
Planning and assessment: reflection, evaluation and the learning cycle
Part Three Inclusive learning
Differentiation
Inclusive learning
ESOL issues for teachers in the lifelong learning sector