Teacher Training Essentials. Workshops for Professional Development

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 128 p. — (Cambridge Copy Collection). — ISBN 978-0521172240.The essential resource for new and experienced teacher trainers.This book of ready-to-use teacher training workshops is designed to provide you with a bank of perfectly planned and structured sessions with accompanying photocopiable worksheets. The sessions develop teachers’ knowledge of three key areas: methodology, language and theory. They also encourage teachers to actively reflect on their own prior learning and experience. These workshops are ideal for in-house and in-service teacher training as well as preparation courses for awards such as CELTA, CertTESOL, DELTA and DipTESOL.Teacher Training Essentials is divided into three distinct sections for ease of use: Classroom methodology, Developing language awareness and Background to teaching.Each teacher training workshop consists of two to three photocopiable worksheets accompanied by comprehensive trainer’s notes.The workshops are suitable for a range of teaching experience: pre-service, new in-service and experienced teachers.Teachers will benefit from learning about teaching methodology in training sessions which are models of good teaching practice.ContentsMap of the book Thanks and acknowledgements IntroductionClassroom methodology Classroom management and teacher language Providing feedback and correction techniques Teaching receptive skills: Reading and listening Oral fluency and speaking skills Developing learners’ writing skills Teaching vocabulary Teaching grammar Lesson planning Planning a sequence of lessons Teaching exam classes Exploiting authentic material Promoting learner autonomy Developing language awareness Phonology: Sounds and word stress Phonology: Sentence stress and connected speech Vocabulary: Features of lexis Concept checking: Vocabulary and grammar Grammar: Tense, time and aspect Grammar: Narrative verb forms Grammar: Future forms Grammar: Conditional forms Grammar: Modality Grammar: The noun phrase Functional language Discourse analysis Background to teaching Methodology: Historical perspectives Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Sociolinguistic perspectives World Englishes Course design Testing and evaluationAppendix Reading and reaction worksheetСпециально для Twirpx.