Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Second Edition

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Teaching English
as a Foreign Language

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Routledge Education Books
Advisory editor: John Eggleston
Professor of Education
University of Warwick
 
 
 

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Teaching English
as a Foreign Language
Second Edition
Geoffrey Broughton,
Christopher Brumfit,
Roger Flavell,
Peter Hill and Anita Pincas
University of London Institute of Education
London and New York

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First published 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Second edition published 1980
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
© 1978, 1980 Geoffrey Broughton, Christopher Brumfit, Roger
Flavell, Peter Hill and Anita Pincas
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utlized in any form or by any electronic,
mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,
including photocopying and recording, or in any information
storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from
the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Teaching English as a foreign language—(Routledge
education books).
1. English Language—Study and teaching—Foreign students
I. Broughton, Geoffrey
428’ .2’ 407
PE1128.A2
78–40161
ISBN 0-203-41254-0 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-72078-4 (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0-415-05882-1 (Print Edition)

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Contents
Preface
vii
1
English in the World Today
1
2
In the Classroom
12
3
Language and Communication
25
4
Basic Principles
37
5
Pronunciation
49
6
Listening and Speaking
65
7
Reading
89
8
Writing
116
9
Errors, Correction and Remedial Work
133
10 Assessment and Examinations
145
11 Young Children Learning English
166
12 Learning English in the Secondary School
174
13 Teaching English to Adults
187
14 The English Department
201
Appendix 1
211
Appendix 2
212
Glossary of Selected Terms
214
Bibliography
233
Useful Periodicals
240
Index
241

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Preface
The increased learning and teaching of English throughout the
world during recent years in both state and commercial
educational institutions has produced a new cadre of
professionals: teachers of EFL. Some have moved across from
teaching English as a mother tongue, others from teaching
modern languages; many have been drawn into service for no
other reason than that their own spoken English is good, or
perhaps because they are native English speakers. Many have
started without specific training, others feel they need to
rethink the basis of their teaching.
This book is written for teachers of all backgrounds. Our
aim is to discuss a wide range of teaching problems—from
classroom techniques to school organisation—in order to
help practising teachers in their daily tasks. We have adopted
an eclectic approach, recognising that the teaching of English
must be principled without being dogmatic, and systematic
without being inflexible. We have tried to show how the
underlying principles of successful foreign language teaching
can provide teachers in a wide range of EFL situations with a
basic level of competence which can be a springboard for
their subsequent professional development. We gratefully
record our debt to colleagues and students past and present
at the London University Institute of Education, whose
experience and thinking have helped shape our own.