John McRae Boeken

Focusing on the integration of language and literature, this practical guide offers strategies for educators to enhance their teaching methods. It emphasizes the benefits of viewing these subjects as interconnected rather than separate, providing resources and approaches that foster a more cohesive learning experience in the classroom.

Literary texts and extracts can provide a stimulating basis for classwork on language appreciation and oral fluency. This book for upper-intermediate and more advanced students contains a wide range of texts with related exercises which aim to make literature more accessible while developing general fluency. It is organized thematically, covering such topics as Family, Environment, Rebellion and Women. There is a minimum of three texts in each unit and the related activities are varied and thought-provoking, to stimulate and sustain discussion. The last part of each unit draws together what the students have read: first, by considering the different treatments of the theme; then by actively involving the students in a stimulation which relates theme to text; and finally, by analysing the literary uses of language illustrated in the texts.

The fully revised edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work of the most important writers and their historical background from the year 600 to the present day. It covers writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Ian Banks and Irvine Welsh.

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

For decades, the traditional "four skills" approach to language learning and teaching has focused on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The one huge omission, the all-important thinking skill, has been left out of most methodological approaches. But all learners, teachers, and workers in the field know the vital importance of the humanist skills. Interpretation, sympathy and empathy, affect, cultural awareness, and context are indispensable. Metaphors and representational uses of language are everywhere. Similarly, "Literature" tends to be represented as some kind of upmarket language use-it is given an institutional capital L, as if to show how important it is. This book restores imaginative "literary" materials to their proper, everyday place in language use and therefore in language learning. It presents a thorough, teacher- and learner-friendly methodological approach to using imaginative texts of all kinds in language teaching and learning. This is the book that set the trend towards creative reading and thinking, the use of representational materials in language learning and teaching, and has encouraged the development of personal response and interpretation, leading to greater and more confident self-expression, and opened up the doors of readers' and learners' imagination.

This book introduces language students to literary texts to be read for pleasure, discussion and language improvement. The themes include Money, Pleasure, Education, and Identity, with a wide variety of unsimplified texts ranging from Shakespeare to John Steinbeck. Teacher's notes are provided at the back of the book. The cassette contains most of the extracts and poems.

A resource book for secondary teachers providing guidelines for preparing and stimulating students to read on their own for pleasure and to improve their English. It provides detailed notes on 17 books at three levels, primary to lower secondary, lower secondary and lower to upper secondary.

Aims to introduce students to an appreciation of literature by treating the theme of school in an entertaining and informative way. The extracts are followed by exercises on the following page which cover listening, reading and discussion. The book and accompanying cassette features extracts from writers' accounts of school. Included are The Diary of Adrian Mole and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.