Dealing with Difficulties

Professional Perspectives

by Luke Prodromou, Lindsay Clandfield

Dealing with Difficulties, part of the Professional Perspectives series, is packed with ideas for dealing with the everyday difficulties and challenges of teaching:

large classes
mixed levels
different learning styles
discipline
homework
or just getting through the beginning, middle and end of day-to-day teaching

Dealing with Difficulties addresses how you get students’ attention, how you keep students attention and how you really help them learn a language through more than 150 techniques and activities.

The techniques and activities in Dealing with Difficulties require minimum preparation and are aimed to produce maximum speaking and interaction in the classroom.

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

As well as being a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences I have trained teachers in over 25 countries around the world and worked for the British Council, Greece, as a teacher and teacher trainer between 1977 and 2000. I have published articles in ELT journals and written over twenty textbooks including Dealing with Difficulties with Lindsay Clandfield; the book won the Ben Warren Prize for 2006 and an English Speaking Union Award for 2007. I obtained my Ph.D from the University of Nottingham and am also a graduate of Bristol, Birmingham and Leeds Universities. I teach young learners in a private language institute in Thessaloniki and am an associate tutor on the MA TESOL at the University of Leicester.