当前，我国外语教育领域正在进行着全面而深入的改革。改革的内容涉及到外语教育的方针政策、基本理论、基本原则、教育文化、教育实施、教育评价等各个方面，关系到新世纪亿万学生的成长和可持续发展。本书覆盖面广，几乎涵盖了TESOL领域的方方面面。语言平实，较少涉及抽象的理论，可读性很强。

“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。

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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

3 Applications of Psycholinguistic Research to the Classroom

 Stephen D. Krashen

4 Teaching ESL: Incorporating a Communicative, Student-Centered

 Component Barry P. Taylor

5 Bilingual Education: Research and Its Implications

 Merrill Swain

Section Three SYLLABUS AND COURSE DESIGN

6 The Threshold Level J.A. van Ek

7 Toward a Functional ESL Curriculum in the Elementary School

 Anna Uhl Chamot

 English for Specific Purposes: Criteria for Course Design

 H. G. Widdowson

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

 to Providing Materials for ESP M.K. Phillips

 C. C. Shettlesworth

Section Four METHODS AND METHODOLOGY

10 Curricular Alternatives for Second-Language Learning

 Linda M. Crawford-Lange

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

 Ted Rodgers

Section Five LISTENING

12 Listening Comprehension: Approach, Design and Procedure

 Jack C. Richards

13 Authentic Listening Activities Don Porter Jon Roberts

Section Six SPEAKING

14 Teaching Pronunciation Rod Carruthers

15 Developing Successful Conversation Groups

 Sharron Kay Bassano Mary Ann Christison

16 Socio-Drama for Social Interaction Robin C. Scarcella

Section Seven READING

17 Schema Theory and ESL Reading Pedagogy

 Patricia L. Carrell Joan C. Eisterhold

18 Toward a Realization of Psycholingnistic Principles in the ESL

 Reading Class Mark A. Clarke Sandra Silberstein

19 Teaching the Information Gathering Skills

 Ronald Mackay

Section Eight WRITING

20 Approaches to Writing Ronald V. White

21 Writing: The Process of Discovering Meaning

 Vivian Zamel

Section Nine GRAMMAR

22 Grammatical Explanations in ESL: Teach the Student, Not

 the Method Miriam R. Eisenstein

23 Introducing the Perfect: An Exercise in Pedagogic Grammar

 Jack C. Richards

24 Teaching the Passive Ronald V. White

Section Ten VOCABULARY

25 On Acquiring an Adequate Second Language Vocabulary

 Len Fox

26 Vocabulary in Context Anna Fisher Kruse

27 Word Frequency and the Importance of Context in Vocabulary

 Learning John G. Honeyfield

Section Eleven TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION

28 The Investigation of Language Classroom Processes

 Stephen J. Gaies

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

 Language Classroom Michael H. Long

30 Error Correction in Foreign Language Teaching: Recent Theory,

 Research and Practice James M. Hendrickson

Section Twelve TESTING

31 Communicative Testing in a Second Language

 Marjorie Bingham Wesche

32 Language Proficiency Interview Testing: An Overview

 David J. Keitges

33 Cloze Testing: An Overview Frances Butler Hinofotis

Index