For complete information on all these resources, see the bibliography for this unit.
| TITLE | AUTHOR | VALUE / USEFULNESS |
|---|---|---|
| For the whole unit | ||
| English as an Additional Language for Adults | Jane Jordan | If you don’t have a background in ESL teaching or tutoring, you might want to read a book like this to get an idea of how to approach ESL work. |
| English as a Second Language Tutor Training Kit | Myrina Rutten-James | This book will help you understand how to approach teaching ESL if you’ve never had experience doing so. |
| ESL Resource Package for Alberta Communities (ERPAC) | Lorene Anderson and Dawn Seabrook de Vargas | This resource provides good information on how to approach ESL work if you have no ESL experience. |
| Tutor Talk: A Training Series for ESL Tutors | Renee Pearson, Phyllis Pankratz and Karen Hammond | As well as giving a good background in teaching ESL, which could be useful if you have no ESL experience, there are sample videos demonstrating techniques you could use with appropriate sections of this unit. Also, tutors could use the resource independently by viewing the videotapes and reading the accompanying manual. |
| Section 1: The Big Four | ||
| Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy | H. Douglas Brown | Chapter 3 provides information on why the skills you teach should be integrated. See pages 79. |
| Section 2: Listening – The Forgotten Skill | ||
| Zero Prep: Ready-to-go Activities for the Language Classroom | Laurel Pollard and Natalie Hess | This book has more handy listening activities. It also has ideas for all the skill areas that can be adapted to a tutoring situation. |
| Section 3: Sound Bits | ||
| Pronunciation Pairs: An Introductory Course for Students of English | Ann Baker Sharon Goldstein |
Look at this resource for a good variety of pronunciation exercises. It includes a book and a tape. |
| Clear Speech: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English | Judy B. Gilbert | This book and tape combination has a lot of samples of stress and intonation. |
| Section 4: Building Vocabulary | ||
| The Oxford picture dictionaries and workbooks | Norma Shapiro and Jayme Adelson-Goldstein (dictionary) and Marjorie Fuchs (workbook) | Take a look at these dictionaries and companion workbooks to get an idea of what exercises can be done with picture themes. |
| All Clear! Books 1 and 2 and tapes | Helen K. Fragiadakis | These books give some other ways to learn idioms. |
| Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs | John Sinclair | This dictionary covers all those two-or-more-word verbs such as take along and take apart. |