EXPLORING LEARNER LANGUAGE: A WORKBOOK FOR TEACHERS PACK (ADVANCE D)

A ''hands-on'' introduction to studying ESL learners'' language for language teachers, TESOL masters and diploma students.Exploring Learner Language shows you how to analyse the language that students use in class. It helps you understand the challenges your students face and enables you to set what you have observed in a broader context of Second Language Acquisition theory. - If you are a trainee or practising teacher, it gives you the sort of hands-on language analysis skills that you cannot get from a purely theoretical course in Second Language Acquisition. - If you are a teacher trainer, using this book and DVD will give your Second Language Acquisition course a practical edge that your trainees will be able to apply to their own teaching practice. The DVD shows a group of six adult ESL learners with different first languages doing a range of individual and pairwork speaking tasks. Each chapter of the book then gives you a range of linked exercises in which you describe the learners'' characteristics and analyse the language they use to complete the specific tasks. There are also full