Author: David Cotton ; David Falvey ; Simon Kent Publisher: Longman Details: Paperback; 176 pages; Pub.2008 ISBN: 1405881356 This Intermediate Business English Course Book is part of the Market Leader interactive series which ranges form beginners to advanced. It...
Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence (book)
Author: A. Ashley Publisher: Oxford University Press Details: Paperback; 304 pages; Pub.2003 ISBN: 0194572137 A revised and updated reference guide to writing effective business correspondence. External Links Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence (Teacher’s...
Common Mistakes at CAE
Author: Debra Powell Publisher: Cambridge University Press Details: Paperback; 64 pages; Pub.2005 ISBN: 0521603773 Common Mistakes at CAE...and How to Avoid Them is a nice resource book for teachers preparing students for the CAE exam. The book highlights the real...
Derek Strange
Co-author of Chatterbox and American Chatterbox for primary learners, and Double Take for young teenagers, Strange is also: author of Start Reading - a series of reading comprehension books for young learners course consultant for Chit Chat writer for Oxford's range...
PELT (book)
Author: David Nunan Publisher: McGraw Hill ELT Details: Paperback; 342 pages; Pub.2003 ISBN: 0072820624 The entire PELT (Practical English Language Teaching) series offers a thorough yet practical overview of language teaching methodology for teachers and trainee...
A Basic English Grammar (book)
Author: John Eastwood; Ronald Mackin Publisher: OUP Details: paperback; pub. 1982 ISBN: 0194329402 An excellent first grammar which covers the basics of English grammar in clear and precise form. Ideal for new teachers and students to get to grips with the basics....
Eric H. Roth
A writer and teacher, Eric H. Roth lives in Venice, California with his wife, Laurie Selik, and Chimayo, their wonderful border collie. Roth has traveled to over 30 countries, and has helped over 5,000 immigrants become naturalized United States citizens as...
Noam Chomsky
The founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky was the first to devise a theory about the biological innateness of language. Born in Philadelphia in 1928 he studied linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on the systematic structure of Hebrew. After...
Learning Teaching
Author: Jim Scrivener Publisher: Macmillan ELT Details: Paperback; 224 pages; Pub.1994 ISBN: 0435240897 This book is not your average a how to book but a well written and informative text that analyzes the different aspects of teaching, the classroom as well as...
A Long List of Proverbs
This is A Long List of Proverbs. It can be used with activities such as proverb match (see below). A cat may look at a king A chain is only as strong as its weakest link A change is as good as a rest A drowning man will clutch at a straw A fish always rots from the...
Jill Hadfield
Jill Hadfield has been involved in EFL either as a teacher or teacher trainer for over 20 years and is the author of over 20 books for teachers, some written with her husband Charles. She has taught and trained teachers in Britain, France, China, Tibet, and...
Planning Lessons and Courses (book)
Author: Tessa Woodward Publisher: Cambridge University Press Details: Paperback; 266 pages; Pub.2001 ISBN: 0521633540 This handbook will help you design sequences of work for your ESL/EFL classes. Whether it's plucking out an activity to start or finish a lesson or...
Martin Parrott
Martin Parrott worked for many years as a teacher and teacher trainer at International House, London, where he was also the Director of Teacher Training. He has taught and trained teachers in many parts of the world and in the Universities of London and Bristol. He...
Michael Swan
Michael Swan - who describes himself as a "freelance writer" - is most well known as an established TEFL writer specializing in reference and teaching materials. His Practical English Usage is regarded as something of a grammar bible and many ESL teachers swear by it....
Marianne Celce-Murcia
Presently Professor Emerita in Applied Linguistics and TESOL at the University of California in Los Angeles and Dean of English Programs at the American University of Armenia in Yerevan. Over the years Dr. Celce-Murcia has been an active member of the American...
Beyond the Sentence (book)
Author: Scott G. Thornbury Publisher: Macmillan ELT Details: Paperback; 192 pages; Pub.2005 ISBN: 1405064072 This is a witty and incisive book where discourse is taken apart to show how it is organized and how it helps communication. The idea that we need to help...
Out and About (book)
Author: Amy Hemmert; Rick Kappra Publisher: Alta Book Center Publishers Details: paperback, 189 pages; 2002 ISBN: 1932383018 An interactive course in Beginning English with a dynamic, student-centered approach. Each unit provides a well-defined series of picture-based...
David Nunan
David Nunan is a linguist and ELT author who has published over 100 books and articles in the areas of curriculum and materials development, classroom-based research, and discourse analysis. Many of his English Language Teaching textbooks were written for Cambridge...
Cambridge Business English Activities (book)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Details: Paperback; 128 pages; Pub.2000 ISBN: 0521587344 This spiral bound is part of the Cambridge Copy Collection. It is a well designed user-friendly resource book containing 43 photocopiable activities to use in your...
Implementing the Lexical Approach (book)
Author: Michael Lewis Publisher: EMEA British English Details: Paperback; 176 pages; Pub.1997 ISBN: 1899396608 The subtitle reads “Putting Theory into Practice” which says it all. The book describes how the Lexical Approach works in the classroom and develops the...
The Good Grammar Book (book)
Author: Michael Swan ; Catherine Walter Publisher: Oxford University Press Details: Paperback; 304 pages; Pub.2003 ISBN: 0194315207 This grammar book teaches all the grammar needed for speaking and writing in English. It explains the rules, shows how the language...
How English Works (book)
Author: Michael Swan ; Catherine Walter Publisher: Oxford University Press Details: Paperback; 368 pages; Pub.1997 ISBN: 0194314561 Winner of the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition, this is not your traditional, dull grammar practice book....
Zellig Harris
Born in Ukraine in 1909, he was taken to the United States (PA) as a child. A student in the Oriental Studies department, he received his bachelor's (1930), master's (1932), and doctoral (1934) degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He began teaching at Penn in...
The Practice of English Language Teaching (book)
Author: Jeremy Harmer Publisher: Pearson Longman ELT Details: paperback; 4th Edition; Pub. 2007 ISBN: 1405853115 This Longman Handbook for language teachers comes with DVD in its 4th edition. The book looks at various teaching approaches and discusses current ELT...
Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (book)
Author: J.C. Wells Publisher: Pearson ESL Details: Paperback; 80 pages; 2nd Ed. Pub.2000 ISBN: 0582364671 This dictionary deals with both English and American pronunciations and the variations of word pronunciations. It shows over 135,000 different pronunciations from...
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two major university presses in the UK (the other being Oxford University Press). It published its first book in 1584, and has published...
Explorations in Language Acquisition and Use (book)
Author: Stephen Krashen Publisher: Heinemann Details: Paperback; 112 pages; Pub.2003 ISBN: 0325005540 Stephen Krashen’s widely known theory of Second Language Acquisition has had a huge impact on all areas of second language research and teaching since the 1970s. This...
Oxford Idioms Dictionary for Learners of English (book)
Author: Jennifer Toby Publisher: Oxford University Press Details: Paperback; 472 pages; 2nd Ed. Pub. 2001 ISBN: 0194315452 The Oxford Idioms Dictionary for Learners of English has 10,000+ Idioms that reflect the English of the new millennium. External Links Oxford...
Grammar Practice Activities (book)
Grammar Practice Activities by Penny Ur is, as the subtitle reads, a Practical Guide for Teachers. This invaluable book is divided into two parts: Part One provides a clear and concise introduction to teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom, plus a...
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press or OUP is a publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. It is the largest university press in the world, being larger than all the American university presses combined with Cambridge University Press. It has...