Teaching Reading, Revised

Should students write their own vocabulary tests? Questions like that run through Richard R Day's guide to teaching reading in second language classrooms, each one set out for teachers to discuss, test against their own practice and argue over. This revised edition of a title that has sold well for TESOL Press adds five new chapters: intensive reading, comprehension activities, reading and vocabulary, choosing a reading textbook, and assessing reading. There is also a new, detailed lesson plan to show the ideas at work.

Day is less interested in handing down rules than in getting teachers to think carefully about what helps ESOL learners read well. A slim, practical companion for English language teachers, trainees and anyone running a reading class who wants to look again at their methods.