The ESL Classroom: Teaching, Critical Practice, and Community Development

by Brian Morgan

Book Overview

The complexities of teaching English as a second language to those newly arrived in Canada are addressed with insight and humour in this book. Brian Morgan draws extensively on his own teaching experience in Canada and China to reinvestigate the nature and aims of ESL teaching and to formulate approaches to becoming a more effective ESL teacher.

Morgan's central principle is that ESL theories, materials, and approaches should be relevant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802081541
• ISBN13: 9780802081544
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher