articles

Dr. Richards has written numerous articles on a wide variety of topics in language teaching. The following are examples of recent articles for an audience of classroom language teachers.

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• Moving Beyond the Plateau: From Intermediate to Advanced
  Levels in Language Learning
  -a booklet published by the Cambridge University Press 2008.
  
  
• Growing up with TESOL: A Personal Reflection
  -published in English Teaching Forum, Vol 46, 1, 2008, pp. 2-12.
  
  
• Second Language Teacher Education Today
  -to appear in a special issue of RELC Journal, commemorating the publication's 40th anniversary in 2008.
  
  
• Developing Classroom Speaking Activities; From Theory to Practice
  -published in Guidelines, (RELC, Singapore), Vol 28, 2, Dec 2006, pp. 3-9.
   
• Teaching And Learning In The Language Teacher Education Course Room:
  A Critical Sociocultural Perspective
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 37, 2, August 2006, pp. 149-175.
   
• Materials Development and Research - Making the Connection
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 37, 1, April 2006, pp. 5-26.
   
• Communicative Language Teaching Today
   
• Second Thoughts on Teaching Listening
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 36, 1, April 2005, pp. 85-92.
   
• The Role of Textbooks in a Language Program
   
• Exploring Teachers’ Beliefs and the Processes of Change
  -published in PAC Journal, Vol 1, 1, 2001, pp. 41-64.
   
• 30 Years of TEFL/TESL: A Personal Reflection
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 33, 2, 2002, pp. 1-36.
   
• Program Factors in Effective Foreign and Second Language Teaching
  -a revised version of this paper appears in Dr. Richards' book
  "Curriculum Development in Language Teaching"

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