“汤姆森英语教师丛书”精选自汤姆森学习出版集团设计的多套论著和教程，均为当代语言教育领域的力作。由当今国际语言教育界的权威人士编著，并由国内英语教育界专家学者撰写导读。本丛书19个选题都是目前英语教师需要了解的课题，可用作英语教师专业化教育与发展和英语专业硕士研究生教育的教材，并可供在职大、中学英语教师和语言教育研究者使用。

导读  F6

Preface  F30

Acknowledgments   F 31

Section One THE CONTEXT OF LANGUAGE TEACHING 1

        Language Policy, Curriculum Development, and TESOL

        Instruction: A Search for Compatibility Elliot L. Judd

      2 The Nature of Language Teaching Peter D. Strevens 10

Section Two SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND

        BILINGUALISM  27

      3 Applications of Psycholinguistic Research to the Classroom

        Stephen D. Krashen 33

      4 Teaching ESL: Incorporating a Communicative, Student-Centered

        Component Barry P. Taylor 45

      5 Bilingual Education: Research and Its Implications

        Merrill Swain 61

Section Three SYLLABUS AND COURSE DESIGN 73

      6 The Threshold Level J.A. van Ek 78

      7 Toward a Functional ESL Curriculum in the Elementary School

        Anna Uhl Chamot 86

        English for Specific Purposes: Criteria for Course Design

        H. G. Widdowson 96

     9 How to Arm Your Students: A Consideration of Two Approaches

        to Providing Materials for ESP M.K. Phillips

        C. C. Shettlesworth 105

Section Four METHODS AND METHODOLOGY 117

     10 Curricular Alternatives for Second-Language Learning

        Linda M. Crawford-Lange 120

     11 Method: Approach, Design and Procedure Jack C. Richards

        Ted Rodgers 145

Section Five LISTENING 159

     12 Listening Comprehension: Approach, Design and Procedure

        Jack C. Richards 161

     13 Authentic Listening Activities Don Porter Jon Roberts 177

Section Six SPEAKING 189

     14 Teaching Pronunciation Rod Carruthers 191

     15 Developing Successful Conversation Groups

        Sharron Kay Bassano Mary Ann Christison 201

     16 Socio-Drama for Social Interaction Robin C. Scarcella 208

Section Seven READING 215

     17 Schema Theory and ESL Reading Pedagogy

        Patricia L. Carrell Joan C. Eisterhold 218

     18 Toward a Realization of Psycholingnistic Principles in the ESL

        Reading Class Mark A. Clarke Sandra Silberstein 233

     19 Teaching the Information Gathering Skills

        Ronald Mackay 248

Section Eight WRITING 257

     20 Approaches to Writing Ronald V. White 259

     21 Writing: The Process of Discovering Meaning

        Vivian Zamel 267

Section Nine GRAMMAR 279

     22 Grammatical Explanations in ESL: Teach the Student, Not

        the Method Miriam R. Eisenstein 282

     23 Introducing the Perfect: An Exercise in Pedagogic Grammar

        Jack C. Richards 293

     24 Teaching the Passive Ronald V. White 298

Section Ten VOCABULARY 305

     25 On Acquiring an Adequate Second Language Vocabulary

        Len Fox 307

     26 Vocabulary in Context Anna Fisher Kruse 312

     27 Word Frequency and the Importance of Context in Vocabulary

        Learning John G. Honeyfield 318

Section Eleven TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION 325

     28 The Investigation of Language Classroom Processes

        Stephen J. Gaies 329

     29 Native Speaker/Non-Native Speaker Conversation in the Second

        Language Classroom Michael H. Long 339

     30 Error Correction in Foreign Language Teaching: Recent Theory,

        Research and Practice James M. Hendrickson 355

Section Twelve TESTING 371

     31 Communicative Testing in a Second Language

        Marjorie Bingham Wesche 373

     32 Language Proficiency Interview Testing: An Overview

        David J. Keitges 395

     33 Cloze Testing: An Overview Frances Butler Hinofotis 412

Index 419