Best books for learning English

Karen Richardson

This is a short, practical guide to improving your ability to read, write, listen to, and speak English in workplace and business situations. The 50 ideas here (and one bonus tip!) give you specific ideas and resources to use and learn from, including links to high-quality, accessible authentic materials. You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. However, students who are already in a class can also use this book to improve their skills more quickly and easily.

Michael DiGiacomo

Motivate your students to learn English with quick set-up, interactive activities from ESL Games for the Classroom. Every moment of class time counts. To fill class time productively, ESL Games for the Classroom offers effective ESL games that engage students with little or no prep work. Quick and easy to set-up, these interactive ESL activities are perfect to warm up a class, round out a lesson, or teach a particular grammar or vocabulary point. Clearly organized by skill and level, ESL Games for the Classroom is the go-to ESL teacher's companion for adding educational games to the agenda. Improve pronunciation, strengthen vocabulary, and make learning fun—ESL Games for the Classroom offers quick and easy solutions to play-based lessons with: 101 ESL games that require little or no prep work for classroom-tested fun Clear organization that allows you to quickly reference games based on the skills you're teaching, classroom size, and difficulty level Flexible use for both small and big groups, plus options for private lessons At the end of every class, leave your students excited to learn more in your next lesson with effective and entertaining activities from ESL Games for the Classroom.

MaryAnn Christison, Donna Christian, Patricia A. Duff, Nina Spada

An important contribution to the emerging body of research-based knowledge about English grammar, this volume presents empirical studies along with syntheses and overviews of previous and ongoing work on the teaching and learning of grammar for learners of English as a second/foreign language. It explores a variety of approaches, including form-focused instruction, content and language integration, corpus-based lexicogrammatical approaches, and social perspectives on grammar instruction. Nine chapter authors are Priority Research Grant or Doctoral Dissertation Grant awardees from The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF), and four overview chapters are written by well-known experts in English language education. Each research chapter addresses issues that motivated the research, the context of the research, data collection and analysis, findings and discussion, and implications for practice, policy, and future research. The TIRF-sponsored research was made possible by a generous gift from Betty Azar. This book honors her contributions to the field and recognizes her generosity in collaborating with TIRF to support research on English grammar. Teaching and Learning English Grammar is the second volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English Series, co-published by Routledge and TIRF.

Mark Lester

Get on the Fast Track to Mastering the English Grammar System!Confident use of grammar is an essential foundation for learning English. English Grammar Drills will help you lay this foundation through clear explanations and rigorous practice. Your language skills will be strengthened as you become more fluent in your use of the correct tenses and verb forms.Inside you will find:•More than 150 exercises, covering all aspects of the English grammar system•Numerous examples that demonstrate correct grammar usage •Review exercises to reinforce your understanding •An answer key to give you clear explanations of every conceptEnglish Grammar Drills is the bestselling source of practical advance that you can use either in conjunction with a course or as a self-learning tool. You’ll become less intimidated by all aspects of grammar and, instead, more confident in your English writing and speaking skills.Topics include:Nouns • Pronouns • Pluralization • Gerunds and infinitives • Basic verb forms • Single- and multiple-verb complements • Modifiers • Indirect quotation • and more

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Senkamalam Periyasamy Dhanavel

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of India's continuing professional development (CPD) landscape. It examines the issues surrounding the professional development of English language teachers in India at the tertiary level from multiple perspectives. Further, it evaluates various models of continuing professional learning (CPL) and emphasizes the transformative model as a solution to the social, administrative, or other impediments teachers encounter in their lives. Importantly, it presents examples, solving academic and non-academic problems in formal and informal, and face-face and technology-mediated forms of teaching and learning by teachers of English in different contexts. It discusses the latest developments in the literature related to the transformative and reflective approach to classroom problems faced by teachers on the ground such as classroom environment, students' socio-economic background, teachers education, and teacher assessment. Also, it positions continuing professional development (CPD) as having transformative power in teaching English in India and how it can improve students' learning opportunities. The book is relevant to English language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers in India and across the globe to address significant issues in the field: how to handle every classroom situation and how to train oneself as a teacher as well as a teacher educator.

Belinda Young-Davy

Without grammar, you can't say much; but without vocabulary, you can't say anything. This book, for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language, will teach you 50 ways to learn, practice, and remember vocabulary in English. By applying these methods, you will improve your ability to understand and express yourself in English. Categories covered include • Finding and Learning New Words • Flashcards • Practicing and Remembering Vocabulary • Vocabulary Games You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. However, students who are already in a class can also use this book to improve their vocabulary more quickly and easily. Learning another language is never fast, but the "Fifty Ways to Practice" series will speed things up by showing you how to practice more efficiently and effectively both inside and outside the classroom. These books can be used by beginners and advanced students alike.

Eli Hinkel

Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar fills an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammatical and lexical features that are essential for all ESL writing teachers and student-writers to know. The fundamental assumption is that before students of English for academic purposes can begin to successfully produce academic writing, they must have the foundations of language in place--the language tools (grammar and vocabulary) they need to build a text. This text offers a compendium of techniques for teaching writing, grammar, and lexis to second-language learners that will help teachers effectively target specific problem areas of students' writing. Based on the findings of current research, including a large-scale study of close to 1,500 non-native speakers' essays, this book works with several sets of simple rules that collectively can make a noticeable and important difference in the quality of ESL students' writing. The teaching strategies and techniques are based on a highly practical principle for efficiently and successfully maximizing learners' language gains. Part I provides the background for the text and a sample of course curriculum guidelines to meet the learning needs of second-language teachers of writing and second-language writers. Parts II and III include the key elements of classroom teaching: what to teach and why, possible ways to teach the material in the classroom, common errors found in student prose and ways to teach students to avoid them, teaching activities and suggestions, and questions for discussion in a teacher-training course. Appendices to chapters provide supplementary word and phrase lists, collocations, sentence chunks, and diagrams that teachers can use as needed. The book is designed as a text for courses that prepare teachers to work with post-secondary EAP students and as a professional resource for teachers of students in EAP courses.

Kathi Wyldeck

This book aims to introduce and explain all the main concepts of gram mar to students in Years 7-10. This home-study guide will h elp children, teenagers and young adults learn the art of traditional En glish grammar so that they can: write and speak better Engl ish think clearly and analytically learn another langu age more easily improve their communication skills for the job world In this book you will find: comprehensi ve information on all the main aspects of English grammar clear definitions and examples of each grammatical concept practice tasks to reinforce your understanding of each new idea vocabula ry, general knowledge and further reading resources a detailed answer section Author: Kathi Wyldock

Maggie Sokolik

This book is made for students of English as a Second or Foreign Language. Updated and expanded for 2023! You will learn 50 ways to notice, understand, and practice different grammatical structures in English. The book is divided into six sections: 1. The Big Picture (general advice and strategies) 2. Nouns and Verbs 3. Adjectives and Adverbs 4. Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Articles 5. Sentences and their Parts Other Topics You do not need to be living in an English-speaking country or be currently taking an English class to use this book. However, students who are already in a class can also use this book to study and learn more effectively. * * * Learning another language is never fast, but the Fifty Ways to Practice series will speed things up by showing you how to practice more efficiently and effectively both inside and outside the classroom. It is useful for beginning through advanced levels.