Description: Covering core topics from vocabulary and grammar to teaching, writing speaking and listening, this textbook shows you how to link research to practice in TESOL methodology. Guided tasks prepare you to engage critically with research literature and use this analysis to inform your own practice.
Brief description: Dr Jane Spiro is Learning and Teaching Development Leader at the Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. In addition to many book chapters and journal articles, she has published Storybuilding (2007, OUP), and Creative Poetry Writing (2004, OUP)
Review Quotes: Would I use this book? Quite definitely, yes! It gives a new slant to TESOL pedagogy by situating it in the wider world, by placing methods in relation to individual user's contexts, and through the onus it places on users to exercise independent judgement.--Alan Maley "ELT Journal"