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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Books Used to Improve Your Knowledge




Language Curriculum Design by I.S.P Nation & John Macalister


This book contains the curriculum design process, explains and justifies these steps, and provides opportunities to practice and apply them. The procedures are described at a general level so that they can be applied to a wide range of specific situations. The process comes to life with numerous examples of real-world applications of the steps. Each chapter contains:

Examples from the author's experience and published research

A task that encourages readers to relate the steps to their own experience

Case studies and suggestions for further reading that connect readers to the experiences of others.

Curriculum or course design is primarily a "how-to" activity involving the synthesis of knowledge from many areas of applied linguistics, such as: Language Acquisition Research, Teaching Methods, Assessment, Language Explanations, and Teaching Material Development. Language curriculum design combines solid research/theory with cutting-edge practice, widely used in his ESL/EFL language teaching courses around the world.






Advanced Reading Power by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries

This book is a student-centered reading literacy textbook based on a cognitive literacy approach. Her four major sections, which can be used simultaneously, help advanced students master the reading skills necessary for academic success:

  • Extensive Reading helps students develop reading fluency, improve comprehension, and expand their vocabulary.
  • Vocabulary construction involves a number of strategies for learning vocabulary, such as using contextual cues, analyzing parts of words, and recognizing collocations.
  • Comprehension Skills teach reading skills such as reasoning, identifying organizational patterns, and critical reading. 
  • Reading Faster offers a selection of highly engaging non-fiction books to help students improve their reading speed and flexibility.
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How to Teach English by Jeremy Harmer

This book is an easy-to-follow and read, practical guide to teaching English. This book is an essential reference for future teachers preparing for exams such as TESOL certificates.

This new edition has been completely revised to reflect recent methodological developments and includes:

- DVD of classroom excerpts demonstrating good practice
- Comprehensive glossary of educational terms
- New chapter for testing
- A task file with photocopiable training tasks






Practical English Teaching by David Nunan

This book provides a thorough and practical overview of language teaching methodologies for teachers and teachers-in-training. The principles outlined in each chapter are richly illustrated with excerpts and excerpts from actual classrooms so that the reader can see how the principles "look" when implemented in a classroom. The book is divided into his three sections:

Explore skills, explore languages, and support the learning process. 

Characteristic:
It provides comprehensive coverage of key areas of language teaching, with a particular emphasis on practical techniques, strategies and tips. 






An Introduction to Functional Grammar by M.A.K Halliday. 

The author place more emphasis on the systematic view from which grammaticalization is understood.
in the context of the overall language model. Grammar explanations are based on an overall theory, but it is a theory that evolves in the process of application.

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Books Used to Improve Your Knowledge

Language Curriculum Design by I.S.P Nation & John Macalister This book contains the curriculum design process, explains and justifies th...