New TESOL titles as at 12 November 2009

• MAK Halliday The essential Halliday, Jonathan J Webster (ed), Continuum International Publising Group, London.
  The Essential Halliday contains selected articles by M A K Halliday on the core areas of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Presenting a thorough survey of Halliday’s published work across five decades, this text includes discussion of function, metafunction, grammar, metaphor, learning and teaching language, child language, computational linguistics, semantics, social semiotics and discourse analysis. Detailed cross references and suggestions for further reading guide the reader to other articles of interest. [from book jacket]
  410 HAL
• Kay Crosse 2007, Introducing English as an additional language to young children: a practical handbook, Paul Chapman Publishing, London.
  The activities and guidance in this book will help teachers to develop the confidence and meet the individual needs of young children with English as an additional language across different settings. The first part of the book focuses on the introduction and development of oral language skills and the particular needs of young English language learners settling into a new environment. The second part of the book presents practical activities grouped under the six areas of learning forming the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) curriculum (UK). Each activity includes an appropriate objective, materials and preparation, key vocabulary to focus on and extension suggestions, as well full guidance on how to manage the activity effectively.
  302.2 CRO
• It's easy being green: adult language, literacy and numeracy activities for environmental life skills 2009, TAFE NSW - Training and Education Support, Broadway, NSW.
  This adult English language, literacy and numeracy resource aims to develop learners' skills within the important context of environmental sustainability and to empower learners to make environmentally responsible lifestyle choices. The main target audience is learners working at ACSF levels 2 & 3. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the same materials as the print resource in Word format so teachers may customise activities, plus images which are referred to in the print resource and a sound file. Unit titles are: Water, Energy, Transport, Waste and Recycling, Shopping, and Green Steps.
  428.34 ITS
• Language games: innovative activities for teaching English 2009, Maureen Snow Andrade (ed), TESOL, Inc., Washington DC.
  ESOL teachers use language games to increase motivation, provide authentic and meaningful language practice, increase student engagement, and infuse the classroom with fun. This volume describes a variety of innovative games used today in language classrooms around the globe, reflecting different contexts and cultures. Chapters in this book demonstrate how both theory and practice inform teaching approaches. While some of the games focus primarily on the four traditional language skills, reading, writing, listening, and speaking, as well as the supporting areas of vocabulary and grammar, other games clearly have a different emphasis, such as critical thinking and content-based language instruction. Other chapters focus on objectives such as getting acquainted, or provide ideas for game templates that teachers can adapt for various purposes and types of content. This book stands apart in that the contributions reflect multiple classroom uses. Themes evident throughout the volume reflect pedagogical goals and practices for language learning such as communicative competence, interaction, authenticity, skills integration, content emphasis, and collaboration. [from book jacket]
  428.24 LAN
• Ilana Snyder 2008, The literacy wars: why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney NSW.
  The Literacy Wars explains the reasons for the often bitter disagreements between the critics who want to reclaim old ways of teaching literacy and the educators who emphasise the possibilities for creative change. It is a story of strong beliefs and deep divisions. It is also a story of the politicisation of the debates, which has repercussions for policy decisions and funding. Drawing comparisons with the UK and the United States, The Literacy Wars shows how the debates in Australia resonate with similar battles in other parts of the world. The challenge facing literacy teachers everywhere is to find a balance between preserving the legacy of the past and preparing children for the literacy demands of the future.
  302.2 SNY
• Kay Bentley 2009, Primary curriculum box: CLIL lessons and activities for younger learners, (Cambridge Copy Collection), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  CLIL, or Content and Language Integrated Learning, is an umbrella term covering teaching contexts in which subject content is taught through another language, this may be in EFL or ESL contexts. This photocopiable resource contains over 50 activities for students between the ages of 6 and 12, at beginner to preintermediate English language levels. The book is divided into 5 sections - Science, The Environment, Maths, The Arts (i.e. Art and Drama) and Literacy. Within each section the activities gradually progress in difficulty, both in terms of content, concepts and language level.
  EKT 372.6 BEN
• Miles Craven 2008, Real listening & speaking 1 - with answers, (Cambridge English Skills), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  Cambridge English Skills is a new four level skills series for adults and young adult learners. This very practical kit, with activities based around the themes 'Social and Travel' and 'Work and Study' covers listening and speaking skills in a range of everyday situations e.g. at shops, in a restaurant or travelling away from home, for elementary to pre-intermediate level learners. The exercises in each unit help you to develop useful listening skills such as listening for opinions, listening for details and listening for the main idea. There are also lots of practical speaking strategies and tasks.
  EKT 428.34 REA
• Liz Driscoll 2008, Real reading 2 - with answers, (Cambridge English Skills), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  Cambridge English Skills is a new four level skills series for adults and young adult learners. This very practical book, with activities based around the themes 'Social and Travel' and 'Work and Study' covers reading skills in a range of everyday situations, for pre-intermediate to intermediate level students. The book contains texts for everyday reading practice. Text types include leaflets, notices, websites, newspapers, instructions etc.
  428.4 REA
• Roger Gower 2008, Real writing 3: with answers, (Cambridge English Skills), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  Cambridge English Skills is a new four level skills series for adults and young adult learners.This very practical book, with activities based around the themes 'Social and Travel' and 'Work and Study' covers writing skills in a range of everyday situations, for intermediate to upper-intermediate level students. The exercises in each unit help develop useful skills such as planning, thinking about the reader, checking the written text, punctuation and spelling. Learning tips throughout the book help students develop writing skills needed.
  EKT 428.1 REA
• Simon Haines 2008, Real writing 4: with answers, (Cambridge English Skills), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  Cambridge English Skills is a new four level skills series for adults and young adult learners.This very practical book, with activities based around the themes 'Social and Travel' and 'Work and Study' covers writing skills in a range of everyday situations, for upper-intermeidate to advanced level students. The exercises in each unit help develop useful skills such as planning, thinking about the reader, checking the written text, punctuation and spelling. Learning tips throughout the book help students develop writing skills needed.
  EKT 428.1 REA

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