Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized around four strands – meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development – teachers will be able to design and present a … More >>
Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing
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#1 by Elvin Ortiz on February 1, 2010 - 5:03 am
I have found this book quite useful for teaching. Among the things that I found useful in this textbook were the strategies and techniques that teachers may use to address reading and writing. The author describes intensive and extensive reading and details and explains how each one is useful to a reading curriculum. Also, Nation presents a series of strategies that clarify for teachers how grammar can be used in a meaningful way to aid reading. Although I’ve read about this particular topic in Grabe’s “Reading in a second language: From research to practice” Nation offers vivid examples on how to accomplish integrating grammar with reading. From a theoretical perspective, this book is less comprehensive than Grabe’s. But it is precisely that whihc confers Nation the opprotunity to go in-depth in the chapters devoted to reading and writing. If you are an ESL teacher at any level, it is a must.
Note of caution: Since Nation is Australian, there are many words that follow different spelling rules, such as “practise” or “organisation.”
Rating: 5 / 5