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ESL Books Guide


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Here is a handy, quick guide to all the best books in the ESL/TEFL field.



Grammar Practice Activity Books

Fun with Grammar: Communicative Activities - Suzanne W. Woodward
200+ communicative activities to reinforce grammar teaching plus usage guidelines.

Clear Grammar: Activities for Spoken and Written Communication - Keith S. Folse
Combines English grammar with the activities that you can do in the class to practise it.

Primary Grammar Box: Grammar Games and Activities for Younger Learners - Caroline Nixon
Photocopiable resource book features a wealth of new and exciting games and activities for the primary classroom.

100 Clear Grammar Tests: For Beginning to Intermediate ESL/EFL Classes - Keith S. Folse
Consolidate and test the grammatical knowledge of your students.A great classroom support.

Grammar Games - Rinvolucri
Something of a classic in the ESL field. Rinvolucri teaches grammar implicitly and successfully.

Grammar Practice Activities - Ur
Ur here provides 100s of activities which help students improve speaking and grammar too.

Communicative Grammar Practice : Activities for Intermediate Students - Leo Jones
Works on student accuracy in written output and contains a lot of communicative activities.

More Grammar Games - Rinvolucri
Follow up to the above book - equally useful in the class.

Caught'Ya !: Grammar With a Giggle - Jane Bell Kiester
Great informal approach to teaching grammar in the ESL classroom.


Composition and Writing

Teaching ESL Writing - Joy M. Reid
Composition, cross cultural activities, responding to student writing, and evaluating writing.

Ready to Write: A First Composition Text - Karen Lourie Blanchard
Blanchard takes learners gradually up to producing full compositions from sentences.

Reading, Writing and Learning in ESL - Suzanne F. Peregoy
Covers topics such as teaching literature and better reading comprehension techniques.

Basic Composition for Esl - Jann Huizenga
A teacher's guide to composition as well as a class book for students.

Writing Workout : A Program for New Students of English - Jann Huizenga
Book uses a process approach to composition writing at beginner/pre-intermediate levels.


Also:

  1. Please Write: A Beginning Composition Text For Students of Esl
  2. Reflecting on Writing Composing in English for Esl Students: Composing in English for Esl Students
  3. Teaching Esl Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice
  4. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL (2nd Edition)
  5. Amazing English!: An Integrated Esl Curriculum
  6. Refining Composition Skills: Rhetoric and Grammar for Esl Students
  7. Esl Composition Tales: Reflections on Teaching
  8. Writing American Style: An Esl/Efl Handbook
  9. Write It Right: Beginning Handwriting and Composition for Students of Esl
  10. Exploring through Writing : A Process Approach to ESL Composition
  11. Writing from Experience: Grammar and Language Skills for Intermediate Esl/Efl Students
  12. Teaching Esl Writing
  13. Write in the Middle: A Guide to Writing for the ESL Student
  14. The Writing Process: A Guide for Esl Students: A Workbook to Accompany the Harpercollins Concise Handbook for Writers
  15. Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features (ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series)
  16. Learning ESL Composition


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