Background & Reference Material

Featuring extensive updates and revisions, the 3rd edition of Materials and Methods in ELT offers a comprehensive and useful introduction to the pr...

The global spread of English, with over two billion users of the language, is now well-documented. English functions as a language of education, bu...

This book presents the learning and teaching of phonological decoding in Chinese EFL primary classrooms. The phonological decoding ability of the c...

The Teachers Resource Materials in pdf format include teaching notes, answer keys, audio scripts and background notes as well as extra activities a...

Penny Ur's 100 Teaching Tips provides tried and tested guidance for English language teachers. This practical book, with its clear and accessible ...

Accelerate your students' Academic Language Development with the second edition of the Oxford Picture Dictionary for the Content Areas for Kids pro...

This collection charts the evolution of grammatical variation in Englishes from Late Middle English to the present, using corpus linguistic tools t...

In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by todays digital ...

Teaching children how to learn is a groundbreaking book offering Primary language teachers a new and practical methodology based on the importance,...

The Company Words Keep is a practical and thought-provoking guide for language teachers, showing how the latest insights into language chunks can l...

Every statement about language is also a statement by and about psyche. Guided by this primary assumption, and inspired by the works of Carl Jung, ...

Using English appropriately to communicate ones thoughts can seem like a challenging task for non-native-English-speaking students. This accessible...

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development? This book explores the answers to this questi...

For language teachers, the daunting task of teaching languages, both native and foreign, in ways that will engage and motivate their students is a ...

When severe reading and spelling problems are not detected at an early stage in the school context, students may not be able to overcome them even ...

This book analyses the interplay between storytelling (with specific reference to oral retellings of authentic picture books), language learning, c...

This book is about the difference between parables and riddles, and between different views and definitions of wisdom and various attitudes towards...