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The Learning Strategies Handbook by Sarah Barnhardt, Pamela Beard El-Dinary, Jill Robbins This exciting new handbook provides teachers with practical guidelines and classroom-tested lessons and activities to teach ESL students how to use learning strategies. Written by experts in the field, this book is a highly accessible must-have guide for implementing learning strategies in the classroom. Features: In-depth theory and research behind learning strategies. The relationship between CALLA (Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach) and learning strategies. Reproducible... Order from UK | US | Canada Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by William Littlewood The communicative approach is changing the face of foreign language teaching. It provides an introduction to communicative language teaching for practising classroom teachers. The author gives a single coherent account of the basic communicative ideas, emphasizing those aspects most important in the classroom so that teachers can integrate the new ideas into their own familiar methods. He stresses that a knowledge of grammar remains essential for effective communication. Order from UK | US | Canada Teaching Tenses by Rosemary Aitken A Must for any EFL Teacher This book is a comprehensive analysis of the English tenses. Each tense is carefully outlined with examples and uses. There is also a section about learner difficulties for each of them. Tables and timelines are included throughout. I recommend this book to any EFL teacher. Using this book it is suddenly easy to prepare lessons where new tenses are introduced. The examples and uses make preparation a piece of cake; the section on difficulties he... Order from UK | Canada Using Folktales (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) by Eric K. Taylor Using Folktales provides over 40 ready-to-use activities and dozens of stories which are suitable for all ages from beginner to advanced level. The paperback edition shows teachers how to take advantage of the unique literary characteristics of folk tales to facilitate language learning. It provides over forty ready-to-use activities and dozens of stories. Activities are suitable for all ages and range from beginning to advanced. Order from UK | US | Canada Find more ELT books