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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 | |