Chapter 3 Language Work in the Classroom
13 Teaching vocabulary
14 Teaching pronunciation
15 Teaching listening
16 Teaching reading
17 Teaching speaking
18 Teaching writing
19 Teaching grammar
20 Making good use of your coursebook
21 Collecting natural language data
22 Exploiting authentic written texts
23 Exploiting authentic spoken texts
24 Using literature
25 Games for language learning
26 Role play
27 Using the news
This is the most substantial chapter of our book, and also the chapter that looks
most closely at specific techniques for teaching various aspects of language. We
offer a range of suggestions on how you can choose to go about teaching
vocabulary, pronunciation, listening, reading, speaking, writing and grammar. In
practice, of course, you will often be doing many of these at the same time, so
perhaps this chapter should be viewed as a whole rather than as separate
agendas.
We also look at various resources you can use to support your teaching: your
coursebook, and also various sources not originally produced for language