ESL Books Guide
Here is a handy, quick guide to all the best books in the ESL/TEFL field.
Teacher Theory and Practice
How to Teach English
- Jeremy Harmer
You couldn't ask for a better quality product to help you in the ESL classroom.
Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners - A. Herrell
Gives teachers with the fifty best theoretical teaching strategies and real-world applications.
Teaching English As a Foreign or Second Language - Jerry G. Gebhard
Great book to have close if you are a non- or newly qualified teacher.
Children With Limited English:Strategies for the Regular Classroom - Ellen Kottler
Priceless if you have a class with only a couple of ESL youngsters in.
Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language - Marianne Celce-Murcia
This book covers every single aspect of ESL teaching - superb for beginners and veterans.
Working with Second Language Learners: Answers to Teachers' Top Ten Questions - Stephen Cary
Illuminating book for teachers with ESL students - Q and A format.
Also:
Esl Literacy Instruction: A Guidebook to Theory and Practice
Academic Competence: Theory and Classroom Practice: Preparing Esl Students for Content Courses
Language Learning Online: Theory and Practice in the ESL and L2 Computer Classroom
Esl Through Content-Area Instruction: Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Language in Education: Theory and Practice 67)
Talking Shop: A Curriculum Source book for Participatory Adult Esl (Language in Education Series Theory and Practice)
Information Literacy Instruction: Theory and Practice (Information Literacy Source books)
McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers
When a Butterfly Sneezes: A Guide for Helping Kids Explore Interconnections in Our World Through Favorite Stories
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
ESL Theory Books
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
Introduction to the language acquisition field of linguistics - interesting to everyone.
Language Myths - Various Authors
Twenty language-based "old wives' tales" confronted by a group of US and UK linguists.
Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society - Peter Trudgill
Thought-provoking book about language and its place in our culture and society.
English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination - Rosina Lippi-Green
Readable work takes American angle on the way that language is used to discriminate.
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis - James Paul Gee
A study of how we use language, of use to language teachers too.
Also:
The Development of Language (5th Edition)
On Dialogue
A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
Junk English
Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought
Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language (Inquires in Social Construction)
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)
Politeness : Some Universals in Language Usage
Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language (Language in Social Life)
What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News
Minority Languages Today: A Selection from the Papers Read at the First International Conference on Minority Languages Held at Glasgow University fro
Terminology and Language Planning: An Alternative Framework of Practice and Discourse (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 2)
101 American Customs : Understanding Language and Culture Through Common Practices
Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of Readings
Focus on Form in Classroom Second Language Acquisition
Second Language Grammar: Learning and Teaching (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)
Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
Successful Nonverbal Communication: Principles and Applications (3rd Edition)
Reading in a Second Language: Process, Product and Practice (Applied Linguistics and Language Study)
Genre in the Classroom: Multiple Perspectives
Games, Icebreakers, Warmers and Other Short Activities
Five Minute Activities - Ur and Wright
Useful activities for first and last five minutes. Good starting points for longer activities too.
Edutainment : How to Teach Language With Fun & Games - I. E. Hewitt
Improve your students' language ability and brighten up even the dourest classroom.
ESL Reading and Spelling: Games, Puzzles, and Inventive Exercises - Imogene Forte
Make your lessons and your students' learning a bit "lighter".
101 Word Games for ESL Students - G. P. McCallum
Book of games which focus on improving students' vocabulary.
Also:
Esl Reading and Spelling: Games, Puzzles, and Inventive Exercises
Esl Vocabulary and Word Usage: Games, Puzzles, and Inventive Exercises
Esl Content-Based Language Games, Puzzles, & Inventive Exercises
Easy & Engaging Esl Activities and Mini-Books for Every Classroom: Terrific Teaching Tips, Games, Mini-Books & More
Top Twenty Esl Word Games: Beginning Vocabulary Development
Esl Teacher's Book of Instant Word Games: For Grades 7-12
Communication Starters and Other Activities for the Esl Classroom
Index Card Games for Esl (Supplementary Materials Handbook Series No 1)
Shenanigames: Grammar-Focused Interactive Esl/Efl Activities and Games
Favorite Games for Fl-Esl Classes
Starter Kit Special Plus Esl Miscellany/Conversations Inspirations/Index Card Games/Grammar Handbook Part 1/Grammar Handbook Part 2/Language Teaching
Play 'N Talk: Communicative Games for Elementary and Middle School Esl/Efl
Reach Out and Teach Someone: Esl Games and Activities Using Your Local Telephone Directory
Amazing English (Word Attack 3)
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