Table of Contents

Unit 1: Core issues in the learning context

a) Classroom dynamics
b) Student interaction and teacher roles
c) Learning styles
d) Motivating students to learn
e) Learner autonomy
f) Lesson planning and determining aims
g) Analysing written and spoken language

Unit 1 (complete)

Unit 2: Micro skills of teaching ESOL

a) Teacher language
b) Questioning techniques
c) Giving instructions
d) Pace in the classroom
e) Drilling techniques
f) Conducting feedback on classroom activities
g) Correcting spoken errors
h) Correcting written language

Unit 2 (complete)

Unit 3: Teaching skills-focused lessons

a) Listening 1: A typical listening lesson
b) Listening 2: Learner-friendly listening lessons
c) Reading 1: Knowing about strategies and sub-skills
d) Reading 2: Setting tasks for reading texts
e) Speaking 1: Fluency
f) Speaking 2: Strategies
g) Writing 1: A product approach and features of written language
h) Writing 2: A process approach
i) Literacy

Unit 3 (complete)

Unit 4: Teaching language-focused lessons

a) Teaching Pronunciation
b) Teaching Vocabulary 1: Different approaches
c) Teaching Vocabulary 2: Concept checking
d) Teaching Grammar 1: Different approaches
e) Teaching Grammar 2: Grammar from texts
f) Teaching Grammar 3: Using communicative activities
 g) Teaching Grammar 4: Concept-checking grammar
h) Task-based language learning
i) Teaching functional language

Unit 4 (complete)

Unit 5: Materials and resources

a) Using authentic materials
b) Timetabling a sequence of lessons
c) Using songs
d) CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning
e) Using DVD or video
f) Using games
g) Using drama activities

Unit 5 (complete)

Resources
The following books are referred to at the end of ETS TaskBook lessons:

• Classroom Dynamics by Jill Hadfield (Oxford University Press 1992)

• Discourse Analysis for Language teachers by Michael McCarthy (Cambridge University Press 1991)
• Drama Techniques: A resource book for communication activities for language teachers (3rd
edition) by Alan Maley and Alan Duff (Cambridge University Press 2005)
• Games for Language Learning (3rd edition) by Andrew Wright, David Betteridge and Michael
Buckby (Cambridge University Press 2006)
• How to Teach Grammar by Scott Thornbury (Pearson 1999)
• How to Teach Speaking by Scott Thornbury (Pearson 2005)
• Learning Teaching (2nd edition) by Jim Scrivener (Macmillan 2005)
• Learning to Learn English by Gail Ellis and Barbara Sinclair (Cambridge University Press 1989)
• Music and Song by Tim Murphey (Oxford University Press 1992)
• Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom by Tricia Hedge (Oxford University Press 2000)
• The Practice of English Language Teaching (4th edition) by Jeremy Harmer (Pearson 2007)
• The Self Directed Teacher by David Nunan and Clarice Lamb (Cambridge University Press 1996)
• Using Authentic Video in the Language Classroom by Jane Sherman (Cambridge University Press
2003)

The following DVD and workbook is referred to at the end of ETS TaskBook lessons:

• Language Teaching Classroom Practice DVD and Workbook by Heather Richards and Karen Wise
(AUT University 2007)