BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Teaching Listening Comprehension - Penny Ur (OUP)
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Teaching Pronunciation: A Reference for Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages - M.Celce-Murcia, D.M. Brinton & J.M.
Goodwin (CUP)
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Principles of Language Learning and Teaching - H. Douglas Brown (Pearson)
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Different beginners
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As I was mulling over teaching beginners recently I came across
the book 'Beginners' by Peter Grundy in the OUP Resource books
series. In the introduction he talks of different kinds of
beginners:
- Absolute beginner
- False beginner
- Adult beginner
- Experienced beginner
- Evening class beginner
- School beginner
- Intensive beginner
- No Roman alphabet beginner
He makes the point that there are still beginners around & there
are lots of different kinds of beginner. He goes on to set the
reader a couple of interesting tasks: With the list of beginners
above, decide the proportion of their English that should be
gained in class time & the proportion outside of the class. Give
a percentage for each.
This clearly depends on lots of variables such as where the
learner is studying, in an English-speaking country or in their
home country. Try it out anyway - think through each type of
beginner & see if you can see any big differences & why.
The next task looks at the differing proportions of time spent on
whole class work, group work, small group work & pair work. So,
for example, would there be more pair work for the Experienced
than the Intensive course beginner? Again, think it through for
each & decide where the big differences are & why.
As Peter Grundy says ' The purpose of ..(the tasks).. is to make
us think hard about the different ways in which elements of a
beginners' course will need to be combined for different types of
learners (absolute, false, child, adult) and types of classes
(intensive, evening, school, subject). All too often we resolve
these issues intuitively rather than thinking our policy through
carefully at the outset and adjusting it continuously in response
to the changing needs of our students.'
Clearly the same applies to all levels, not just beginners.
To get hold of a copy of Peter Grundy's book 'Beginners':
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