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Title Understanding the courses we teach : local perspectives on English language teaching / edited by John Murphy, Patricia Byrd
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2001]
©2001

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 MELB  428.0071 Mur/Utc  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 493 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents A time for local perspectives / John Murphy -- Background and general principles / John Murphy -- Precursors to the understanding collection / John Murphy -- A framework for discussion / John Murphy and Patricia Byrd -- General purposes instruction -- English in the workplace at Goodwill Industries / Marjorie Terdal, Janice Ruhl, and Carolyn Armstrong -- Families as curriculum partners in an urban elementary inclusion classroom / Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan, Jerri Willett, and Judith Solsken -- Community-based ESL: Exploring "critical citizenship" / Brian Morgan -- Building a community of adult ESL learners / Robert A. DeVillar and Binbin Jiang -- An Australian adult ESL settlement classroom / Anne Burns and Pam McPherson -- English as a foreign language -- Videoing conversations for self-evaluation in Japan / Tim Murphey -- FocalSpeak: integrating rhythm and stress in speech-pronunciation / William Acton -- "Extensive reading" for Japanese English majors / Thomas N. Robb -- English for engineers in Hong Kong / Lindsay Miller -- EAP Support for matriculated university students / Janet M. Goodwin -- A theme-based literature course: focus on the city of Angels / Donna M. Brinton -- Canadian language and culture: a course for nine academic credits / David J. Mendelsohn -- "Writing for proficiency" in summer school: lessons from a foxhole / Dana R. Ferris -- A course in grammar-editing for ESL writers / May Shih -- Strategic reading on a sustained content theme / Joy Janzen -- Theme-based instruction: fieldwork in a small Connecticut town / Carol Numrich -- Academic speaking: learning to take "longer turns" / Janet G. Graham and Susan M. Barone -- English through Web page creation / Heidi Shetzer and Mark Warschauer -- Looking forward: connectivity through the Internet / John Murphy and Patricia Byrd.000000000000000000000
Analysis TESOL
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-477) and indexes
Subject English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.
Author Byrd, Patricia.
Murphy, John, 1952-
LC no. 2001001993
ISBN 0472097709 acid-free paper
0472067702 paperback acid-free paper