Jack C. Richards

Practice Teaching surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. 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.

Practice Teaching surveys issues and procedures in conducting practice teaching. 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.

Tactics for Listening Third Edition is an activity-rich listening course with proven success in building skills in listening and conversation. Now with Tactics for Testing, it provides plenty of practice in testing and exam techniques. The result is confident listeners – and exam success. This three-level American English listening course uses short chunks and practical, relevant activities to engage and motivate students. The new Testing Program and Resource CD-ROM helps you prepare your students for TOEIC®, STEP-EIKEN®, IELTS®, TOEFL® and GEPT® exams.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. The comprehensive, interleaved Teacher's Edition 4 provides step-by-step instructions to present, practice, and review all new language for Student's Book 4. It also features the audio scripts, optional exercises, and informative notes.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. Workbook 4 provides additional reading and writing reinforcement of Student's Book 4. There is one workbook page per Student's Book lesson. In the Check Yourself section, students assess their own performance. Answer keys are in Teacher's Edition 4.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. The comprehensive, interleaved Teacher's Edition 3 provides step-by-step instructions to present, practice, and review all new language for Student's Book 3. It also features the audio scripts, optional exercises, and informative notes.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. Connect Student's Book 4 is an intermediate level text for students aged 11-15 who are learning English for the first time. It develops speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in engaging contexts. The Audio CD includes the Vocabulary, Language Focus, and Get Connected sections.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. Workbook 3 provides additional reading and writing reinforcement of Student's Book 3. There is one Workbook page per Student's Book lesson. In the Check Yourself section, students assess their own performance. Answer keys are in Teacher's Edition 3.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. The comprehensive, interleaved Teacher's Edition 2 provides step-by-step instructions to present, practice, and review all new language for Student's Book 2. It also features the audio scripts, optional exercises, and informative notes.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. Workbook 1 provides additional reading and writing reinforcement of Student's Book 1. There is one workbook page per Student's Book lesson. In the Check Yourself sections, students assess their own performance. Answer keys are in Teacher's Edition 1.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. Connect Student's Book 3 is a low intermediate level text for students aged 11-15 who are learning English for the first time. It develops speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills in engaging contexts. The Audio CD includes the Vocabulary, Language Focus, and Get Connected sections.

Connect, Second Edition, is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. Workbook 2 provides additional reading and writing reinforcement of Student's Book 2. There is one workbook page per Student's Book lesson. In the Check Yourself section, students assess their own performance. Answer keys are in Teacher's Edition 2.

Professional Development for Language Teachers examines ten different techniques that can be used to facilitate professional development in language teaching. These effective teaching tools are: self-monitoring, support groups, journal writing, classroom observation, teaching portfolios, analysis of critical incidents, case analysis, peer coaching, team teaching, and action research. The book begins with a conceptual framework for professional development. All chapters contain practical examples in the form of vignettes written by teachers using the techniques, as well as reflection questions to help readers apply the approach in their own teaching context.

This book provides a systematic survey of the field of curriculum development in language teaching.

This thought-provoking book examines the nature of second language teacher development and how teachers' practices are influenced by their beliefs and principles. The book seeks to move discussion of language teacher development beyond the level of "training," which reflects a technical view of specific teaching practices. Instead, it 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 underly their teaching practices.

For use in courses on language teaching methodology and teacher preparation, this book also serves as an invaluable source for courses in language curriculum development, materials development, and teaching practice. The author views effective language teaching as a network of interactions involving the curriculum, methodology, the teacher, the learner, and instructional materials (hence the metaphor of a matrix). Each chapter discusses and examines the theoretical and practical dimensions of a central issue in language teaching. Among the topics covered are curriculum development, designing instructional materials, teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing, the nature of effective teaching, self-monitoring in teacher development, and language and content. Richards presents key issues in an accessible and highly readable style, and shows how teachers and teachers-in-training can be involved in the investigation of classroom teaching and learning. The emphasis is not on prescriptions but rather on developing effective teaching through understanding the various factors that interact in second language learning and in the second language classroom.

This book presents a clear description and analysis of the major approaches and methods used in second and foreign language teaching.