Product description

This is an essential resource for CELTA candidates and trainers. The Trainee Book supports candidates with an accessible ready-to-use course, while the Trainer's Manual provides trainers with all the material they need to deliver CELTA, whether in the classroom, online or as a blended course. The second edition reflects changes to the qualification and includes new material on topics including teaching in virtual classrooms, teaching young learners and the use of L1. It includes 40 practical units organised into the five main CELTA topic areas: Learners and teachers, and the teaching and learning context; Language analysis and awareness; Language skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing; Planning and resources for different teaching contexts; and Developing teaching skills and professionalism. The book also features a range of supplementary materials to support trainees to get the most from their course.

Contents

Introduction 4

1 - Learners and teachers, and the teaching and learning context

1 Learning and teaching contexts 7

2 Learners as individuals 11

3 What do teachers do? 15

2 - Language analysis and awareness

4 Introduction to analysing language 19

5 Introduction to researching language 24

6 Vocabulary 32

7 Teaching vocabulary 35

8 The sounds of English 39

9 Stress, rhythm and intonation 45

10 Teaching pronunciation 50

11 Phrases and sentences 56

12 Tense and aspect 60

13 Language functions 64

14 Text and discourse 69

15 Presenting the meaning and form of new grammar items 73

16 Checking the meaning of grammar items 79

17 Practising new language items 84

18 Providing feedback on learner production 89

19 Teaching language items reactively 95

3 - Language skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing

20 Focus on listening skills 101

21 Focus on reading skills 106

22 Focus on speaking skills 112

23 Focus on writing skills 117

24 Teaching basic literacy 123

25 Integrating skills 128

4 - Planning and resources for different teaching contexts

26 Lesson planning: defining aims 133

27 Lesson planning: lesson design and staging 137

28 Lesson planning: planning beyond the single lesson 141

29 The online classroom v the face-to-face classroom 146

30 Choosing and using teaching resources 150

31 Teaching with limited resources 155

32 Using educational technology 160

5- Developing teaching skills and professionalism

33 Organizing and managing a class 163

34 Managing an activity 168

35 Teaching young learners and teenagers 171

36 Teaching at different levels 176

37 Maintaining learner motivation 182

38 Introduction to assessment 185

39 Developing as a teacher 190

40 Preparing for the workplace 193

Teaching practice 199

Classroom observation 208

Review quiz 209

Acknowledgements 211