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Recommending a grammar book for teachers is always difficult. Why so? The problem is that that there is an enormous choice of grammar reference books and in order to recommend one I really need to know more about the user. How knowledgeable is the...

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Placement testing, level testing, exam practice: in the past these areas all had to be devised or organised by schools on behalf of their students. As in so many other areas, the Internet offers a quick and easy solution...

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This month’s book is a classic study of pragmatics that should be in every school’s reference library. Geoffrey Leech’s Principles of Pragmatics was first published by Longman in 1983. Pragmatics had ...

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This month I have chosen Zoltan Doernyei,(2001) Teaching and Researching Motivation
ISBN 0-582-38238-6, Persons Education Ltd., xii+295pp. Like the author, we may feel that the whole topic of language learning motivation is “characterised by a confusing plethora of competing theories, with little consensus and much disagreement among researchers”. Thus this book ...

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This month’s books form a series published by Summertown , a publisher set up in 1998 to specialise in ELT. The series is called 50 ways to improve your English…without too much effort. There are five books...

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My book this month is not a new publication but it is one that I found dealt with a useful by-path of language that has allowed me to devise ...

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When it comes to business English resources, the most important quality is flexibility. It is seldom possible to follow a coursebook in a linear way with business English students and...