teacher reference

	Tips for Teaching Listening: a Practical Approach (with Anne Burns) Pearson 2011 Tips for Teaching Listening: a Practical Approach, links practical techniques with contemporary listening research. The book covers such topics as listening processes, skills, strategies, text types, academic listening, the three phases of listening, course planning, and assessment.
	PRACTICE TEACHING: A REFLECTIVE APPROACH with Thomas Farrell Cambridge University Press 2011 Written for language teachers in training at the diploma, undergraduate, or graduate level, Practice Teaching: A Reflective Approach surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. The book adopts a reflective approach to practice teaching and shows student teachers how to explore and reflect on the nature of language teaching and their own approaches to teaching through their experience of practice teaching.
	SELECTED WORKS OF JACK C. RICHARDS ON APPLIED LINGUISTICS. Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Beijing, China 2010 This 700 page collection contains 30 articles published by Dr. Richards on teacher education, methodology, and applied linguistics.
	THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION Edited by Ann Burns and Jack C. Richards Cambridge University Press 2009 This book contains a collection of 30 original articles, and delivers a state-of-the-art survey of issues and approaches in second language teacher education today. Written by internationally prominent researchers and scholars from around the world it covers a wide range of key issues in the field of teacher education for language teachers.
	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS with Thomas Farrell Cambridge University Press This book is a practical introduction for teachers, administrators, and coordinators, who wish to implement a coherent and strategic approach to teacher development. Contents: 1. The nature of teacher development 2. Workshops 3. Self-monitoring 4. Teacher support groups 5. Keeping a teaching journal 6. Peer observation 7. Teaching portfolios 8. Analyzing critical incidents 9. Case analysis 10. Peer coaching 11. Team teaching 12. Action research
	APPROACHES AND METHODS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING with Theodore Rodgers 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press This book provides a comprehensive analysis of language teaching methods and approaches. The first edition of this book has been a standard reference in teacher training programs around the world. It has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into many different languages. However a great deal has changed in language teaching since the first edition was published, and these changes are reflected in the new edition of the book, which has over 50% new content. Content of the New Edition Part 1 Major Trends in 20th Century Language Teaching 1. A brief history of language teaching 2. The nature of approaches and methods in language teaching 3. The Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching 4. The Audiolingual Method Part II Alternative approaches and methods 5. Total Physical Response 6. The Silent Way 7. Community Language Learning 8. Suggestopedia 9. Whole Language 10. Multiple Intelligences 11. Neurolinguistic Programming 12. The Lexical Approach 13. Competency-Based Language Teaching Part III Current communicative approaches 14. Communicative Language Teaching 15. The Natural Approach 16. Cooperative Language Learning 17. Content-Based Instruction 18. Task-Based Language Teaching 19. The post-methods era
	CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN LANGUAGE TEACHING Cambridge University Press This book is based on courses Dr. Richards has taught in recent years on curriculum development, syllabus design, and materials development. Dr. Richards teaches courses and workshops in this area every year at the Regional Language Centre, Singapore, and the books brings together issues and practices in language curriculum development. Key stages in the curriculum development process are examined, and practical tasks and discussion activities throughout the book are enable it to be used both in in-service courses and as a reference text for coordinators of language programs, teachers, and program administrators. Contents: 1. The origins of language curriculum development 2. From syllabus design to curriculum development 3. Needs analysis 4. Situation analysis 5. Planning goals and learning outcomes 6. Course planning and syllabus design 7. Providing for effective teaching 8. The role and design of instructional materials 9. Approaches to evaluation
	REFLECTIVE TEACHING IN SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS with Charles Lockhart Cambridge University Press Reflective Teaching is an approach to teacher development that centers on teachers investigating their own classroom principles and practices. It is designed to be used in in-service courses at both the Diploma and MA level. This book introduces the nature of reflective teaching and shows how it can be applied to language teaching. A variety of procedures that can be used in classroom investigation are first presented, such as journal writing, peer observation, recording lessons, and action research. The book then examines a number of key issues in language teaching and shows how teachers can explore them in relation to their own teaching. Among the issues examined are teachers' belief systems, teacher decision-making, learner beliefs, learning strategies, classroom language, classroom interaction, and the use of teaching materials. Each chapter includes practical tasks and activities.
	SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION with David Nunan Cambridge University Press This book is an edited collection of original papers on different aspects of teacher education. The book seeks to bring together some of the key specialists in the field of second language teacher education (such as Rod Ellis, Donald Freeman, Kathleen Bailey, John Fanslow, Richard Day, Martha Pennington) and examines key issues involved in planning a teacher education course for language teaching. Topics covered include observation, supervision, journal writing, and evaluation.
	BEYOND TRAINING Cambridge University Press This book contains a collection of Dr. Richards' papers on teacher education. It seeks to examine the nature of second language teacher education, and to move discussion of the subject beyond the level of "training", which takes a technical view of specific teaching practices. Instead, the book takes a more holistic approach to teacher development, built on the notion of the teacher as critical and reflective thinker. The argument pursued throughout the book is that teacher education needs to engage teachers not merely in the mastery of techniques, but in an exploration of the knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes that underlie their teaching practices.
	TEACHER LEARNING IN LANGUAGE TEACHING with Donald Freeman Cambridge University Press This book introduces the field of educational research called "teacher learning" as it applies to the teaching of second languages. Until recently, the study of second language teacher education focused mainly on the knowledge base and teaching skills of teachers and teachers-in-preparation. This book approaches teacher education from a different point of view, through an exploration of the thinking and learning processes employed by teachers as they learn to teach. The book contains fifteen original articles, based on studies conducted in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, provide examples of research into the ways that individuals learn to teach second languages, and the roles that previous experience, social context, and professional training, play in the process. The collection thus helps establish a research base for teacher learning within second language teacher education. The book includes a full discussion, and accompanying index, of research methods.
	METHODOLOGY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CURRENT PRACTICE edited with Willy Renandya Cambridge University Press This anthology offers a comprehensive overview of approaches to the teaching of English and illustrates the complexity underlying many of the practical planning and instructional activities it involves. Organized into 16 sections, the book contains 41 seminal articles by teacher-trainers and researchers. The anthology serves as a reference text for courses in teaching methodology, and as a resource book for classroom teachers. All royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to a scholarship fund to enable teachers from Southeast Asian countries to attend courses at the Regional Language Centre, Singapore.
	TEACHING IN ACTION: CASE STUDIES FROM SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS Published by TESOL Case studies are a valuable resource in teacher education, since they can be used to show how teachers deal with classroom situations and illustrate the problems-solving and thinking skills that teachers employ. This book is a collection of 75 case studies, prepared by language teachers. Each case study describes a problem the teacher confronted in his or her teaching and the teacher's response to the problem. Following each case study is a commentary on the teacher's response, by a teacher educator. In this collection, the first of its kind in TESOL the case studies are grouped around issues and topics, to facilitate their use in teacher education courses.