Coursebooks
Face2Face Intermediate (Cambridge) - the newest Cambridge coursebook series, now available in all levels - has a very nice CD-ROM in the back of the book (which can of course be used with our lovely new whiteboard)
Just Right Elementary (Marshall Cavendish) - a series by Jeremy Harmer. Has a student Audio CD with the vbook (not to be confused with the class CD - which as yet we don't have)
Straightforward Upper Intermediate (MacMillan) - also with CD-ROM
The Business (MacMillan) - a business coursebook currently only available at intermediate - has a fantastic CD-ROM with it with some excellent dilemmas - basically mazes which are based on listening and discussion. work fabulously with the whiteboard.
Other Books
Headway Academic Skills - Reading Writing , Study Skills - Level 2 (Pre-Intermediate)
How to Teach English with Technology - written by Gavin Dudney and Nicky Hockley, who ran the workshop I went to in January in London - full of practical ideas - has a CD ROM with video of a lot of these things working in practice
Essential Grammar in Use - Version 3 - with CD ROM - check this CD ROM out - brilliant!
Brochures
New specifications for the FCE and CAE exams starting December 08. Plus CD with practice listening tests
Journals
ELT Journal January 07
- Theory and practice of teaching discourse intonation
- Teaching new tendencies in gender usage in modern English
- Learning to learn: the impact of strategy training
- Looking outwards, not inwards
- Young Learners' Functional Use of L2 in a low-immersion EFL context
- Predictable books in the children's EFL classroom
- Acknowledgement as a key to teacher learning
iT's For Teachers Spring 07
- ELF: English as a Lingua Franca
- Ideas for using post-its
- Activities
- The Red Carpet Film Challenge
- Best & Worst
- New 7 wonders of the world
- Go Globish
- Yours Truly, Angry Mobs
- Last Stands
- Win a set of English Readers
- The IM Generation
- The Unofficial Version
ESL Magazine March/April 07
- Adolescent Literacy and English Language Learning: An Urgent Issue
- Helping ESL Students Improve their Grammar
- Learning about the Law
- Moodle: Getting Together Online Gets Even Better
Modern English Teacher Jan 07
- The Idiots' Guide to Big Grammar Items
- Passive Voice Dominoes
- Grammatical Options in a Task-Based Approach
- Developing Pragmatic Competence in the Classroom
- Pre-University Students
- Future Projections
- Welcome to the Machine
- Drawing from the Research Into Multimedia Learning and Design
- Storytelling for Bridging Cultures
- Tangential Self-Development
- Shared and Mutual Knowledge in Language Learning
Lots of stuff to read (but also lots of stuff to carry!)
If you read any of this, remember we won't all have time to read all of it and might benefit a lot from you posting a brief outline here.
2 comments:
I had a brief look at 'Teaching English with Technology' in the staffroom this afternoon, in particular the section on wikis. Would like to read more, but would they be an interesting alternative/addition to using blogs?
They are very similar in many ways. I haven't experimented much with wikis yet, but i know one main difference is the layout. Blogs are automatically laid out in reverse chronological order and have the publishing date on there, just like a journal/diary. Wikis are organised more lik a web site, and can have several different pages. You can link from one part of the site to another. For this reason they may be better for producing reports. I think wikis may not have the comment facility, which would be a disadvantage. I shall comment some more when I get more knowledge(!). Anyone know more than I do?
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