delta recommended pre course reading list (1) 2

DELTA Recommended pre-course reading Two useful general books to get you started are: Tricia Hedge, Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom, OUP, 2000 Scott Thornbury, About Language, CUP, 1997 ALREADY HAVE PDF You may then choose to concentrate your reading in areas where you either think you have a need to improve your knowledge or where you have an existing interest. We give some recommendations below but you are not expected to have read a large number of these books before the course. We suggest you make your own selection and set your own priorities, bearing in mind the time you personally will have available for background reading. Methodology Jack Richards and T. Rogers, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, CUP, 2001 P. Lightbown and N. Spada, How Languages are Learned, OUP, 2006 ALREADY HAVE PDF Grammar Michael Lewis, The English Verb, Heinle ELT, 1997 Scott Thornbury, How to Teach Grammar, Longman, 1999 ALREADY HAVE PDF Discourse Michael McCarthy, Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers, CUP, 1991 ALREADY HAVE PDF Scott Thornbury, Beyond the Sentence, Macmillan, 2005 ALREADY HAVE PDF Lexis International House Bangkok 7th floor, Silom Rd., Suriyawong, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500 Thailand. T: +662 6326790-1 F: +662 6326792 E: [email protected] www.ihbangkok.com

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Recommended books to read before taking the Cambridge DELTA course

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DELTA Recommended pre-course reading

Two useful general books to get you started are:

Tricia Hedge, Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom, OUP, 2000 Scott Thornbury, About Language, CUP, 1997 ALREADY HAVE PDF

You may then choose to concentrate your reading in areas where you either think you have a need to improve your knowledge or where you have an existing interest. We give some recommendations below but you are not expected to have read a large number of these books before the course. We suggest you make your own selection and set your own priorities, bearing in mind the time you personally will have available for background reading.

Methodology

Jack Richards and T. Rogers, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, CUP, 2001

P. Lightbown and N. Spada, How Languages are Learned, OUP, 2006 ALREADY HAVE PDF

Grammar

Michael Lewis, The English Verb, Heinle ELT, 1997 Scott Thornbury, How to Teach Grammar, Longman, 1999 ALREADY HAVE PDF

Discourse

Michael McCarthy, Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers, CUP, 1991 ALREADY HAVE PDF

Scott Thornbury, Beyond the Sentence, Macmillan, 2005 ALREADY HAVE PDF

Lexis

Michael Lewis, The Lexical Approach, Heinle ELT, 1993 Scott Thornbury, How to Teach Vocabulary, Longman, 2002 ALREADY HAVE

PDF

Phonology

Adrian Underhill, Sound Foundations, Macmillan, 1994 ALREADY HAVE PDF

International House Bangkok7th floor, Silom Rd., Suriyawong, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500 Thailand.T: +662 6326790-1F: +662 6326792E: [email protected]

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Peter Roach, English Phonetics and Phonology, CUP, 2009

Listening

J. J. Wilson, How to Teach Listening, Longman, 2008 Goodith White, Listening, OUP, 1998 ALREADY HAVE PDF

Reading

Christine Nuttall, Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language, Macmillan, 2005

Speaking

Ronald Carter and M. McCarthy, Exploring Spoken English, CUP, 1997 Scott Thornbury, How to Teach Speaking, Longman, 2005 ALREADY HAVE PDF

Writing

Jeremy Harmer, How to Teach Writing, Longman, 2004 Christopher Tribble, Writing, OUP, 1997

International House Bangkok7th floor, Silom Rd., Suriyawong, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500 Thailand.T: +662 6326790-1F: +662 6326792E: [email protected]

HAISLN 2011 Recommended Reading 1-2 grade