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Preface | |
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What Do Language Teachers Think About? | |
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What Should I Know about Language Learners and Language Teaching Settings? | |
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Types of Language Learning Settings | |
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Learner Characteristics | |
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Younger Learners and Stages of Cognitive Development | |
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What Should I Know about Second Language Acquisition? | |
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Theories of Second Language Acquisition | |
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The Critical Period Hypothesis | |
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How the Theories Differ on Important Language Teaching Issues | |
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Implications for Language Teaching | |
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What Should I Know about Language Teaching Methodologies? | |
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Language Teaching Methods | |
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What Is the Best Language Teaching Method? | |
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Content-Based, Learner-Centered, and Task-Based Approaches to Language Teaching | |
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From Teacher-Centered to Learner-Centered Approaches | |
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How Do You Teach a Language? | |
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What Should I Know about Teaching Listening? | |
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The Importance of Listening Comprehension | |
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Obstacles to Teaching Listening Comprehension | |
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The Listening Process | |
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Some Guidelines for Developing Listening Activities | |
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Activity Ideas | |
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Assessing Listening Comprehension | |
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What Should I Know about Teaching Speaking? | |
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The Importance of True Communication in the Language Classroom | |
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Obstacles to Teaching Speaking | |
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The Development of Speaking Ability | |
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Some Guidelines for Developing Speaking Activities | |
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Activity Ideas | |
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Assessing Speaking | |
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What Should I Know about Teaching Reading? | |
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The Importance of Reading | |
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The Reading Process | |
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Types of Second Language Reading | |
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Learning to Read in a Second Language | |
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Types of Reading Materials | |
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Helping Students Develop Effective Reading Strategies | |
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ESL Teachers and Content Reading | |
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Some Guidelines for Teaching Reading | |
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Activity Ideas | |
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Assessing Reading Comprehension | |
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What Should I Know about Teaching Writing? | |
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The Writing Process | |
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Types of Second Language Writing | |
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Helping Students Develop Effective Writing Strategies | |
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Some Guidelines for Teaching Writing | |
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Activity Ideas | |
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Assessing Writing | |
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What Should I Know about Teaching Academic English in Content Classes? | |
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The Development of Academic Language | |
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Generation 1.5 and Transnational Students | |
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Scaffolding, Contextualized Input, and Thematic Units | |
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Promoting Second Language Development in Content Classes | |
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Academic Literacy | |
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Integrating Language Skills Using Thematic Units and Task-Based Activities | |
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Some Guidelines for Teaching Language through Content | |
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Activity Ideas | |
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Assessing Language in Content Classes | |
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How Do I Know What to Teach? | |
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How Do I Assess Language Learning? | |
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Standards | |
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Issues in Language Testing | |
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Testing Approaches | |
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Testing for a Variety of Purposes | |
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Testing the Standards | |
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The TOEFL and the ACTFL OPI | |
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How Do I Plan My Classes? | |
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Planning for Your Students | |
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Common Language Teaching Activities | |
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Where Do I Go from Here? | |
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So, Am I Now a Language Teacher? | |
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Thinking of Yourself as a Language Teacher | |
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Becoming Open to New Ideas about Language and Language Teaching | |
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Becoming a Better Language Teacher | |
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Your Future as a Language Teacher | |
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Beginning Your Journey as a Language Teacher | |
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The Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) ESL Version | |
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Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) | |
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Teacher Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (TFLAS) | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |