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Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction

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I read this book in a teacher's book study. Although it certainly addressed all of the current philosophies of language learning, inclusion,contextualizing, giving detailed feedback, etc., the main thing I remember from that book study is how glad I was not to be still in graduate school having to read things like this regularly. It was heavy on theory and short on practical, usable suggestions for the actual teacher having to deal with discipline issues, keeping the kids entertained and motivated, and coping with paperwork while instructing. The prose was dense and unapproachable. I can see that a lot of effort was put into the book, but I hope any future editions will take the practicing teacher into account. It takes a lot of time and effort to put together a stimulating language class. Reading this book took more time than it was worth in terms of practical information.

As someone who has taught foreign languages for 20 years and headed up a university foreign language department for nine years, I suspected I had fallen into ruts and needed a fresh overview of current theory and practice. The book met my needs perfectly. In fact, I will be rereading it. Highly recommended.

I've seen a good bit of teaching now--with all the observation, assisting, and tutoring that my college has had me doing--and I have to say when I see something going wrong now, I'm able to come back to the theories from this textbook and pinpoint exactly what's lacking in that classroom.

Being recently graduated from high school, I had a number of ideas about language instruction and where it was lacking. The theorists from this book take small ideas that I had and stretch them miles further than I ever would have on my own. Chapter 1 is enough to take all the preconceptions you've ever had about language teaching and turn them upside-down.

In short, I'm so glad that my methods of teaching language class uses this textbook!

This is great book to have and read as a teacher's guide book in ESL and SLA field.I've used this book in the class and this gives lots of resources and methodology, etc. This is one of my favorite book.

Took a couple days for it being "expedited", but I didn't need it before I got it, so no complaints.

the book was in great condition, just like it was described and the shipping was super fast! thanks!