From Language Learner to Language Teacher: An Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language

By Donald B. Snow

Book Overview

Today, there are about four nonnative-speaking English teachers for every teacher who is a native speaker. More English teachers work in non-English-speaking settings than in English-speaking settings, and most are natives of the countries in which they teach. This volume focuses on the challenges faced by English teachers for whom English is a second (or even third or fourth) language. Four themes receive special emphasis: communicative language teaching, proficiency, language learning, and practicality. Chapters 1-5 cover issues of classroom survival: basic principles of language learning and teaching and course and lesson planning. Chapters 6-13 discuss the language skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar; the role of culture in language teaching; and some of the problems that recur in EFL classrooms. An afterword suggests paths for teachers who want to pursue further study, and appendixes offer a starter kit for course planning, sample course plans, culture-topic activity ideas for oral skills classes, and print and Internet resources for teachers and students.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931185387
• ISBN13: 9781931185387
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Tesol Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"