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| Title | Summer Reading Ideas: Recommended Books about Teaching |
| Body | If you're looking for more fun and less academic fare, take a look at these recent recommendations from the TESL listserv. From http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521847605/ref=pe_snp_605/104-5266433-3557532?n=283155 The Experience of Language Teaching by Rose Senior, Michael Swan Through the words of more than 100 practising language teachers, The Experience of Language Teaching provides a detailed picture of teaching and learning in communicative classrooms. Using a teacher-generated framework it covers a range of aspects of classroom life: how teachers create environments suitable for language practice, how they get students 'on-side', how they manage tricky students, how they enhance the learning experience, how they develop and maintain a spirit of community. The book demonstrates how paying attention to both the learning and social needs of their class groups enables language teachers to behave in flexible ways that promote learning. This book will be of interest to teachers, teacher educators, researchers and to anyone interested in finding out what it is like to be a language teacher at the present time. ---- One book which has not been mentioned is Leo Rosten's "The Education of Hyman Kaplan". This is a minor classic of (fictional) humour. It concerns an immigrant to the US from a country of indeterminate, perhaps central European origin, who, through ingenuosity (or should that be ingenuousness?) foils his English teacher at every turn. Current practicioners will recognise themselves, I am sure, in some chapters. Those who are considering entering this profession will understand that there is both drudgery and high humour in a job that has not ceased to entertain me in 25 years. I would do nothing else (and I will also never grow rich!). Graham, A. Books about 'being' a teacher. Teachers of English to speakers of other languages electronic list. TESL-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (21 Feb. 2006). ---- I'd like to recommend "Learning to Bow" by Bruce Feiler. It's about the author's experience teaching in a junior high school in Japan. Japanese students love it because it incorporates what he learns about Japanese schools along with some of the things he tries to do in the Japanese classroom. It's a very readable book. Sadow, C. Books about 'being' a teacher. Teachers of English to speakers of other languages electronic list. TESL-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (21 Feb. 2006). |
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