Ways of Doing: Students Explore their Everyday and Classroom Processes (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) [Paperback]

Paul Davis (Author), Barbara Garside (Author), Mario Rinvolucri (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0521585597 | ISBN-13: 978-0521585590 | Publication Date: March 13, 1999

Ways of Doing helps students discover how they do things, both inside and outside the classroom. Based largely on humanistic principles, it over 100 activities designed to encourage students to think, speak and write in English about areas they may never have discussed in their mother tongue. Ways of Doing is a rich source of stimulating and easy-to-use lesson ideas requiring minimal preparation. The activities, which are suitable for a range of levels and ages, deal with the following areas: - examining the patterns and processes in students' everyday life - exploring both the mother tongue and the foreign language - group dynamics - exploring and exploiting the course book - ways of learning - correction and feedback. There is also a special teacher development section.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'This book, as with other publications by these authors, is bound to become an invaluable resource for your staff bookshelves. Full of practical suggestions and ideas that have been tried in international language classrooms, it encourages the students to explore their everyday and classroom processes.' QUATESOL Newsletter, 1999

'Ways of Doing continues the tradition of instant recipe books, but with a very interesting twist: The Student is the Subject.' TEFL Farm November 99

'This is a very special little book, and if it has passed you by unnoticed I urge you to get your hands on a copy. It's packed with original and thought-provoking activities for the student and teacher alike. So if you have loved Five Minute Activities or Discussions That Work but have been looking for something new, which also puts the spotlight squarely on the learners, then Ways of Doing is the book for you.' TEFL Farm November 99

'Ways of Doing is a book that should be available in every TEFL library worthy of its name.' VVLE Newsletter, Belgium

'I definitely recommend this book to any teacher who believes each learner is a unique, whole person and who is interested in new ways of using English naturally and meaningfully in class.' English Teaching Professional Issue 17 October 2000

Book Description

Over 100 activities, requiring minimal preparation, designed to make students think, speak and write in English.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521585597
• ISBN-13: 978-0521585590
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,245,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but not very helpful, June 9, 2002

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Barbara J. Chaplin (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ways of Doing: Students Explore their Everyday and Classroom Processes (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) (Paperback)

I found this book, like all of the books in the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series, very interesting to read. Davis and Rinvolucri always write books that are full of unusual ideas. This book is, too. However, I found it less useful than their other books as a source of things to do in class, because most of the activities in this book are simply too unusual, and will require an exceptionally charismatic teacher to make them work. I teach English in Asia, and I have found that the students here are much less willing to accept new or strange techniques than are European and North American students. To sum up, the book may open up to you a new and fruitful way of designing activities for class, but I don't think that you will be able to use many of the specific activities that they present.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative, April 21, 2004

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Sir Mawn "chinchachoma" (Mexico, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ways of Doing: Students Explore their Everyday and Classroom Processes (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) (Paperback)

Before purchasing this book I attended a Paul Davis workshop and got to see many of the activities in this book. I can understand that this book can strike teachers as strange but I believe that it's the whole point. They seem stranger on paper but in reality many have worked wonders for me.

Few methodology books include new and innovative material. Ways of Doing will give you many new activities that can bring your classroom to life with not much preparation time.

It includes both teacher-centered and student-centered activities so it can be good to both the "charismatic" and the "not so charismatic" teacher.