What Should Every EFL Teacher Know?

by I.S.P. Nation

This very practical book covers the most important information that a teacher of English as a foreign language should know. It focuses on practical issues such as how to teach listening, speaking, reading, and writing; how to teach pronunciation, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and discourse; how to design lessons and courses; and how to solve teaching problems like large classes, a wide range of proficiency in a class, unmotivated students, and misbehaving students.

Genres: Education

240 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2013

About the author

Paul Nation is Emeritus Professor in Applied Linguistics at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies (LALS) at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His specialist interests are language teaching methodology and vocabulary learning. He supervises PhD research on vocabulary. He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland and Japan.

Reviews

[Jesse Field]

Along with What Should Every EFL Teacher Know, Nation gives the smartest, most comprehensive reference I've seen. And teaching EFL is good preparation for teaching just about anything else, for what it boils down to is: teach less, let the students do more. Engage them with staged activities involving speaking and writing, listening and reading, and help them build fluency with special tasks that put a premium on going faster. Add to this a good set of principles for designing projects, and you've got yourself a complete education program.

[Azat Sultanov]

This is a must-read for all language teachers. I have finally found something that sets some signposts, baselines and reference points in teaching. If I could take only so many books with me to some remote place to teach English this would be one of them.

[Fatimah Well]

I sure that this book is the most wanted book for EFL teachers.

[Donald Ball]

A must read for aspiring EFL teachers!

[Jake]

Lots of practical teaching tips and suggestions for program content.

But dumbed down in order for accessibility. That's a good thing if you ask me. Just not my thing.

[Ye Min]

Nearly a perfect book for communicative learning language teacher.