A history of language teaching
An interesting summary of the various methods used in language teaching for the last 100 years or so. If you are a language teacher,it may well be of interest to you, but it doesn`t give any easy answers, preferring rather to explore the wide range of options available to teachers.

This series of learning objectives offers all practitioners a description of the language needed to assure a learner's ability to deal with the challenges presented by everyday communication.

An excellent source book for ELT professionals
Threshold 1990 is a statement of language learning objectives. As such, it will be especially useful to ELT professionals such as syllabus designers, authors of learning materials and course planners, but English language teachers will also appreciate the information found in it.
Based on extensive research carried out by the Council of Europe since the seventies, Threshold 1990 attempts to specify in detail the degree of com...

This is an introduction and guide to the study of errors in language, which presents a critical survey of previous work. It seeks to clarify such questions as: does correctness matter?; and is it more important to speak fluently and write imaginatively or to communicate one's message? Other questions addressed include whether "good" English for the native speaker is also good for the foreign learner. The reader is led from definitions of error and related concepts, to categorization of types ...