Suggests exercises to increase fluency with numbers for use primarily with children and teenagers learning English as a second language. (KM)

Discusses the goals of the learner with respect to foreign language instruction and ways in which teachers can help in the achievement of these goals. (PM)

Presents the merits of teaching English as a second language to employees at work via the telephone, and describes the teaching techniques involved. (KM)

Explains how grammars and textbooks can present the formal tense relations of English in a concise, uncomplicated way. (PM)

Explores some of the classroom techniques of first language teaching which can be applied to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. (PM)

Stresses the need for all language teachers, and second language teachers in particular, to suit the content and the methodology of their lessons to their particular group of students. (PM)

Points out that the emphasis in English language teaching should shift from spoken to written English since international communication today generally means gaining access to written information. (CFM)

The language teacher must teach not only language but also its cultural background. Students should be taught to avoid social or cultural pitfalls in areas such as accent, greetings, role relationships, idioms, and tense. (CFM)

Courses in linguistics should be included in teacher training programs for future teachers of English as a second language but they must be taught with the practical needs of the classroom teacher in mind. (CFM)

Discusses the four areas involved in communicative competence (knowledge of mechanical rules, meaningful rules, appropriacy, and nonlinguistic conventions) and to what extent it is possible or desirable to teach communicative competence to nonnative speakers of English. (CFM)

Discusses the value of classifying the errors adult language learners make and of comparing them to errors made by children. It is suggested that teachers correct student errors in the same way parents correct children's errors in order to encourage successful learning. (CFM)