The Experience of Language Teaching

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Rose Senior's book The Experience of Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press, 2006) brings together her teaching experience, philosophy and research findings. Based on five interlinked studies involving twelve years of research into the teaching and class-management behaviour of 100 experienced language teachers, The Experience of Language Teaching provides a detailed account of teaching and learning in language classrooms.

Although based on research and of interest to researchers, The Experience of Language Teaching has been written in an accessible style with a broad audience in mind. This audience includes novice and experienced teachers, teacher trainers, postgraduate students and anyone interested in finding out what is like to be a language teacher at the present time.

Contents

  1. Establishing a framework for the book
  2. Training to be a language teacher
  3. Becoming a committed language teacher
  4. Establishing the learning environment
  5. The diversity of the language classroom
  6. Managing individuals
  7. Teaching flexibly
  8. Vitalising the language class
  9. Maintaining the language community
  10. Frustrations and rewards
  11. What drives language teachers
  12. Towards a teacher-generated theory of classroom practice

The view the book on the Cambridge University Press website, go to http://www.cambridge.org/elt/elt_projectpage.asp?id=2500601

Review extracts

"All language teachers will be delighted to recognize something of themselves in this book' and will find it professionally stimulating and encouraging. . . . The book is the outcome of a meticulously executed grounded theory study described in detail in the first chapter. . . . This is a book for everyone interested in how language teaching works, in what makes a successful language teacher and how language classes thrive". Robin Adamson, SCILT, Scotland: Scottish Languages Review 14, Autumn 2006
www.scilt.stir.ac.uk/SLR/Issue14/SLR14BookReview-V2.pdf

The book is a real gem and one I am going to recommend to all of the teachers I have worked with in the past and will work with in the future. Sandee Thompson, Halifax, Canada. English Teaching Professional 54, January 2008.
http://www.etprofessional.com/content/view/1060/36/

"I would highly recommend this book to any language teacher. It provides comfort and practical suggestions as well as acknowledgement of the complexities and intricacies of the profession". Nicola Harris, Johannesburg: IH Journal 23, Autumn 2007, p. 53.
http://www.ihworld.com/
an/ihjournal/documents/IHJIssue23Final_000.pdf

Readers' comments

"Why has no-one written a book like this before?"Anne Cavanagh, EFL teacher, Perth, Western Australia
"I enjoyed your book immensely. So many nails were hit on the head that it would be a bible for an aspiring ESL/EFL teacher and a confirmation for all those (old) experienced ones". Carol Seymour, ESL Teacher, Perth, Western Australia
"I sincerely believe that it is destined to become a classic in ELT"John Attard, Vancouver, Canada

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