Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher

Becoming an Outstanding Languages Teacher explores the skills that it takes to deliver exceptional language  teaching and produce outstanding results. Written by a highly  experienced teacher and teacher educator, this book provides a wide  range of approaches to teaching, along with an abundance of practical  classroom ideas.

This new edition keeps the focus on  the nuts and bolts of planning lessons – which will keep students  engaged and stimulated when learning a language – and features a new  chapter on intercultural understanding, as well as updated information  on the latest digital technology tools. Reference is made to tried and  tested methodologies and classroom procedures, along with exciting new  approaches which teachers have found productive. The book covers:

• how to run a room;
• dissecting lessons: written texts, aural texts and visuals;
• teacher-student interactions, communicative tasks and sentence-building;
• developing phonological and phonics skill;
• purposeful games;
• teaching with words and chunks;
• teaching students with varying aptitude for language learning;
• using digital technology to support learning;
• what it means to "teach grammar";
• intercultural understanding;
• building a repertoire to lighten your workload.

Packed  full of strategies which are easy to implement, this book is essential  reading for both pre-service teachers and experienced practitioners.