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If you are looking for that ESL PDF book and can’t find it anywhere, why don’t you give it a try with this list. I know it does not contain all ESL Teaching Books out there but it can give you the opportunity to find a similar book
PDF #106 – Foster Watson – Dr Joseph Webbe and Language Teaching (1622)
The great Grammar War of the seventeenth century was concerned with the dispute: Shall Latin be taught as a living language, or through the grammar? The advantage of the grammar-method was that uniformity of procedure was secured throughout the schools.
PDF #105 – Catherine McLoughlin – Who is in Control Defining Interactive Learning Environments
This paper seeks to address the pedagogical principles inherent in the design of learning environments with such educational media as telematics and live interactive television.
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This article reports on an ESRC-funded project which investigated the use of corpus-based activities in a primary-school context, with children aged 8-10 years. The study aimed to explore the contributions that could be made by a corpus – comprising language written for a child audience – and a modified version of the associated software, in helping these young children (all L1 English speakers) to learn about language.
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PDF #103 – Otto Jespersen – Language its Nature Development and Origin, 1922, University of Copenhagen
The distinctive feature of the science of language as conceived nowadays is its historical character: a language or a word is no longer taken as something given once for all, but as a result of previous development and at the same time as the starting-point for subsequent developments.
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PDF #102 – N.S. Prabh – Second Language Pedagogy
This book aims to present a particular view of second language pedagogy, together with an account of a five-year project of exploratory teaching which helped to articulate that view and to develop procedures of teaching consistent with it.
PDF #101 – T Silva – Second Language Writing
In light of increasing globalization and written eletronic communication, worldwide interest in second language writing has increased rapidly during the past 25 years.
PDF #100 – Julie A Van Dyke – The Role of Memory in Language and Communication
Lnaguage comprehension requires the ability to construct linguistic dependencies between nonadjacent constituents.
PDF #99 – Kenji Hakuta and Eugene E Garcia – Bilingualism and Education, 1989, Uni of California
The concept of bilingualism ps applied to individual children and to educational programs is discussed, and the history of research on bilingual children and bilingual education programs in the United States is reviewed.
PDF #98 – Gustavo Rubino Ernesto – How English came to be Brazil’s second language
This paper will look on the events that let Brazil, a country with more than two hundred million people, to adopt a language that has never been directly influenced before over its five hundred years of history. Brazil has had many periods of mass migration, but it has never held an Anglo-Saxon flood of immigrants. This paper will also present in details the reasons and influences that led this gigantic country to choose English as its second language.
The aim of this essay is to investigate what English teachers‟ attitudes are towards British English, American English and Mid-Atlantic English. What variety of English do teachers use in Swedish upper secondary schools today and what are their reasons for using that variety? Do upper secondary school teachers think it is important to expose students to several varieties of English and do they teach differences (e.g. vocabulary and spelling) between varieties? The material is based on a questionnaire, which 20 participating teachers from five different upper secondary schools in Gävleborg answered. The study showed that there is an even distribution between the varieties used and taught. British English was preferred by teachers working the longest time while both AmE and MAE seemed to be growing in popularity among the younger teachers. Of the 20 teachers, 18 considered teaching differences to students since it gives them a chance to communicate effectively with people from other English speaking countries.