Books for 2007
 

Hi all,

If I made a New Year's Resolution to read at least three TEFL-related books this year, what should I choose?

Re: Books for 2007
 

What kind of books do you want - methodology related or activity based books? Are you interested in teaching garmmar, group work, songs, business English, interaction or all of the above? :)

Re: Books for 2007
 

It does depend on what you're interested in but here are a couple.

Structure of Social Action by Atkinson and Heritage
- This is a little heavy but really says a lot about conversation through conversation analysis and is a nice break away from grammar and structure books.

Principles & Practice in Applied Linguistics, Studies in honour of H.G. Widdowson
- a good overall look at Appilied Linguistics and philosophy behind teaching a language

Re: Books for 2007
 

Douglas Brown's book on "Teaching by Principles" is a good one if you want a general book to start. It's a big book (400 pages plus) but very easy to read.

Re: Books for 2007
 

ok, thanks for the suggestions. I like the Applied Linguistics one.

Re: Books for 2007
 

Here are the books that I bought for my CELTA Course:

1. J. Scrivener: "Learning Teaching", Second Edition. Macmillan.

2. M. Swan: "Pratical English Usage", Third Edition. Oxford.

3. M. Parrott: "Grammer for English Language Teachers; With exercises and a key", Eleventh Printing. Cambridge University Press.

These are great resource books and really good at improving your lessons and how to teach in lessons.

Re: Books for 2007
 

I've got the third one. Haven't used it much yet but at least I can use it when I am stuck on a grammar point. Did you get it in Korea or England? I got it in Kyobo for 28,000 last year. Not bad since it was a lot more expensive on amazon.

Re: Books for 2007
 

I got the books in England from Amazon. There was an offer on Amazon with the books.