Webinar Replay: Grammar Activities for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Classes

About the webinar

On November 15, Grammar and Beyond author Dr. Randi Reppen hosted a webinar on integrating classroom grammar activities across all skill levels. The webinar focused on activities that can be used in the classroom for each major language skill: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Dr. Reppen opened the webinar with a discussion on the importance of integrating grammar across all four skills. It’s easy to fall into the trap of focusing on grammar in isolation, especially when teaching a dedicated grammar course, but it is absolutely essential to combine as many of the skills as possible when designing a classroom activity. (more…)

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Book of the week: ‘The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching’ by Michael McCarthy

The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching

Book description

A volume concerned with best practice in blended learning for language teaching.

The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching makes the case that it is pedagogy, rather than technology, that should underpin the design of blended learning programmes. The book is organised into five sections: Connecting Theories and Blended Learning; Implications for Teaching; Rethinking Learner Interaction; Case Studies; The Future of Blended Learning. With its research-informed and practitioner-focused approach, this book is ideal for language teachers and language centre managers looking to broaden their understanding of pedagogy and blended learning. (more…)

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Scott Thornbury’s Upcoming Book: About Language

Cambridge is publishing Scott Thornbury’s new book ‘About Language’ in March 2017.

Book description

About Language

Tasks for teachers of English that help to develop language awareness and invite consideration of the pedagogical implications and classroom applications.

This second edition has been fully revised and updated, incorporating recent developments in language description, whilst keeping the organisation and structure of the successful first edition. As before, the book asks: ‘What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?’ It develops teachers’ language awareness through a wide range of tasks, which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying systems. (more…)

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