Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Second Edition

Suggestions for further reading
M.Argyle,  The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour, Penguin, 4th
edn, 1983.
G.Brown, Listening to Spoken English, Longman, 1977.
G.Brown and G.Yule, Teaching the Spoken Language, Cambridge
University Press, 1983.
D.Byrne, Teaching Oral English, Longman, 2nd edn, 1981.
W.Rivers,  Teaching Foreign Language Skills, University of Chicago
Press, 2nd edn, 1981.
W.M.Rivers and M.S.Temperley, A Practical Guide to the Teaching of
English, Oxford University Press, 1978.
 

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Chapter 7
Reading
What reading is
It is a commonplace of teacher education that teachers tend
to teach by the methods which were used by the teachers who
taught them. In no area of language teaching is this more true
than in that of reading. It is probably for this reason that the
procedure of reading round the class has been perpetuated,
though anyone who considers it seriously, even briefly, in
terms of what it contributes to new learning, or of pupil