Vocal, Instrumental, and Ensemble Learning and Teaching is one of five paperback books derived from the foundational two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music Education. Designed for music teachers, students, and scholars of music education, as well as educational administrators and policy makers, this th[...]

Big ideas in the mathematics curriculum for older school students, especially those that are hard to learn and hard to teach, are covered in this book. It will be a first port of call for research about teaching big ideas for students from 9-19 and also has implications for a wider range of students[...]

Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices that can overcome these challenges. Extracts from classroom data provide real-life examples of teachers and students interacting with each other in different approaches to content-based [...]

This is a comprehensive introduction to teaching the pronunciation of North American English. It includes an illustrated description of the sound system of English, ideas for overcoming pronunciation problems specific to fifteen different languages, and a variety of approaches and techniques for use[...]

This book answers both theoretical and practical questions on the teaching of reading. The author offers numerous suggestions on how to teach expository prose, non-prose reading, fiction, poetry and songs, as well as advice on how to help students discern opinion from fact. Textbook examples are com[...]

Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching has influenced the way thousands of teachers have taught English. This classic guide to developing the way you teach has been an essential resource to new and experienced teachers worldwide, and is now in its third edition. Each chapter focuses on a dif[...]

Professor Widdowson provides a critical review of the most prominent issues in language teaching today - among them the relevance of theoretical enquiry to practical pedagogy, and the relationship between grammar and discourse in communicative language teaching. He relates these issues to general pe[...]

What makes teaching Business English different from general teaching? What approaches and techniques work best with job-experienced and pre-experience business learners? These are key questions, whether you are new to the field, or are a practising, experienced teacher of Business Eng[...]

English is the major language of international communication, and everyone wants to learn it. But which English, and how? This book questions the cultural assumptions underlying much English teaching, and suggests classroom aims and teaching methods based on the requirements of an international lang[...]

This fully updated second edition provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to teaching young learners. It gives an accessible overview of the issues, including child development, L1 and L2 learning, L2 skills, vocabulary and grammar, learning to learn, materials design, and policy issues. [...]

Containing easy-to follow description of the language, this book includes accessible lesson plans which provide a blueprint for teachers to use. It aims to offer a good way in to methodology that avoids a lot of technical jargon and theory.[...]

Exploring the relationship between research, teaching and tasks, this text seeks to clarify the issues raised by work in this field. The book shows how research and task-based teaching can mutually inform each other and clarify the areas of task-based course design, methodology and assessment.[...]