I'm teaching an "Intro to Teaching ESL" course later this summer as part of a sequence of classes. The first class will cover a lot of the "practical" aspects -- teaching the 4 skills, methods, materials, strategies, etc. -- and my portion will mostly cover "cultural" aspects of TESOL.
Question: what textbook should I use? The hope is something broad, not too theoretical, and cheap.
Ideas so far (with Canadian price):
Language and Culture by Claire Kramsch ($23) - short, many short collected readings, but not TESOL-or-teaching-focused per se
Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice by Patrick Moran ($40) - tons of exercises, examples, etc, but written by a foreign lg teacher (French) and focused on teaching culture rather than "cultural issues" in teaching
Culture in Second Language Teaching and Learning by Eli Hinkel ($22) - I like this one, and I think even though it was written in 1999 it gets at a lot of issues (and has stuff by a lot of different authors)...leaning toward it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
2 comments:
You could try Corbett, John, 2003, An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching, Multilingual Matters. It links the world of TESOL and culture quite nicely.
Awesome, that looks great! Only drawback is the price, but I like the look of it.
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