The publication of the Michel Thomas ground-breaking, all-audio language learning materials has been a publishing phenomenon. Sales of over one million units in just eight years and the universal acclaim his method has excited would indicate that there is a large body of people …
The Michel Thomas Method of learning foreign languages works with the brain to build up the target language in manageable, enjoyable steps. In this book, educational psychologist Dr Jonathan Solity looks in detail at the methodology and its implications for the way we learn.
The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three efl teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxac…
What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"--The schools of grammar and rhetoric -- in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despit…
Penny Ur's 100 teaching tips
by Ur, Penny
fromCambridge handbooks for language teachers