Teachers need an approach to teaching the sentence that provides students with proficiency in sentence elements and clear understanding of how these work together to create types, purposes, and functions of sentences. They, likewise, need an approach that is effective, that results in students mastering the elements essential to their understanding of English language. More than this, though, they need an instructional approach that will build students' background in text features and increase their conscious awareness of text at its most elemental level, the sentence. Following their understanding of the sentence, students can be branched easily to the paragraph and from there to understanding the whole to part nature of text better. Needed: A Whole School Focus On Sentence Basics Why not a whole school focus on sentence basics? Why not get all the teachers on the same page with respect to the sentence and in so doing, get everyone focused on ONE standard for writing sentences? This text provides the approach that can launch an effective writing to learn or writing across the curriculum approach.

This title is designed primarily to be used for language improvement by teachers on in-service training courses.

This heavily revised and updated new edition of the best-selling language teacher handbook is a comprehensive introduction to research-informed classroom practice. Topics explored include: Language teaching methods Lesson and curriculum planning Intercultural understanding Listening, speaking, reading and writing Teaching in the target language Vocabulary, grammar and phonics Fluency and lexicogrammar Assessment Meeting the needs of all learners Teaching advanced level students Motivation Songs and drama Subject knowledge Language teachers of any experience will be introduced to a wide range of findings from second language acquisition and cognitive science research, along with a wealth of practical classroom ideas to enhance their practice. This new edition lays greater emphasis on lexicogrammar, fluency, intercultural understanding, meeting diverse learner needs, lesson and curriculum planning. About the first edition: "A treasure chest for every language teacher." (Languages Today, the magazine of the Association for Language Learning.)

The book offers a concrete theory and practice of philosophy of education. It explores educational aspects of the Indian and western philosophy and philosophers. It can help students and teachers as well as teacher educators to analyze, reflect upon and improve their teaching practice from a philosophical point of view. It challenges students and teachers to incorporate both theory as well as practice of philosophy in their classroom teaching.