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In issue of Modern English Teacher:
KEYNOTE
The Lexical Approach is dead: long live the lexical dimension
Ivor Timmis argues that while the Lexical Approach may be dead, we should add a Lexical Dimension to our teaching.
ABOUT LANGUAGE
Stories
Nick Shepherd suggests some ways you can use stories in the classroom.
Ordering words about (or About ordering words, or Words about ordering)
Jonathan Marks discusses word order in noun phrases and reveals that the truth is actually more complicated than we had thought.
The Idiot’s Guide to big grammar items
P is for punctuation
Did you know this?
Fairly, quite, rather
PRACTICAL IDEAS
Cliffhanger activities
Hall Houston shows how we can have fun keeping students in suspense.
Helping students ‘notice’ spoken grammar
Christian Jones gives us some activities to help increase students’ awareness of linguistic form.
Reading skills: what are they
and how do you teach them?
Paul Bress explains how we can help students unlock texts.
Vocabulary development for the conversation class
Charles Januzzi shows us one way to develop students’ vocabulary outside the English classroom.
Interactive grammar teaching
Yan Xiao-Yun describes an experiment to make traditional grammar teaching interesting, inspiring and creative.
Writing with wikis
Barley Mak and David Coniam explore the use of wikis to foster collaborative writing.
And finally …
Mark Lloyd describes multi-level, preparation-free, language-rich, authentic text-based, off-the-peg lessons for busy English teachers!
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS!
Podcasting for beginners – part 2
Richard Cain continues his series, exploring how to set up podcasts of your own.
Interactive Whiteboards;
a practitioner’s view An interview with Russell Stannard.
Webwatch: Elearning blogs
Michael Carrier looks at the latest blogs.
Techtips: Setting up an Elearning blog
Michael Carrier explains how easy it is to create your own blog.
IT MADE ME THINK
Implementing negotiation in classroom teaching
Chunmei Yan looks at the benefits and possible pitfalls of negotiation.
Improving students’ higherorder thinking skills
Mustafa Zülküf Altan looks at the ways we can improve our students’ thinking and their chances of success.
PEOPLE
John Sinclair
Ronald Carter remembers the man who was the major influence on corpus linguistics and spoken discourse analysis.
REVIEWS
Oxford English for Careers:
Tourism 1: Provision
Tourism 2: Encounters
Sandee Thompson
Professional English in Use:
Law
Medicine
ICT for Computers and the Internet
Mark Lowe
Business English Handbook (Advanced)
Glenda Inverarity
Common Mistakes at KET … and how to avoid them
Wayne Trotman
Really Learn 100 Phrasal Verbs (2nd edition)
Really Learn 100 More Phrasal Verbs
Seth Lindstromberg
Literature (2nd edition)
Jonathan Marks
Teaching other subjects through English
Roger Barnard
Background Books
From Corpus to Classroom: Language Use and Language Teaching
Alex Tilbury
World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching
Neil McBeath
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