Teaching adults

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Teaching adults

Magda_teacher

Teaching adults

Hi everyone!

I �m looking for infomation about teaching speaking to adults for a research I �m doing on this topic. I would appreciate if you could share some resources with me or recommend me some titles of books where I could look this information up.

Thanks in advance :)

12 May 2012

ueslteacher

Busy Teacher has a whole lot of articles with tips related to teaching adults:

http://busyteacher.org/4276-speak-up-sure-fire-ways-to-help-teens-and-adults.html

http://busyteacher.org/7370-15-tricks-get-adult-learners-talking.html

http://busyteacher.org/4325-what-adult-learners-want-know-them-to-teach-them.html

http://busyteacher.org/4286-adult-esl-learners-homework-assignments-that-work.html

http://busyteacher.org/3643-teaching-adults.html

http://busyteacher.org/10495-lets-talk-writing-prompt.html

http://busyteacher.org/2564-swappy-roleplays-for-adults-1.html

http://busyteacher.org/2580-swappy-roleplays-for-adults-2.html

http://busyteacher.org/2581-swappy-roleplays-for-adults-3.html

http://busyteacher.org/3853-role-play-friendship.html

http://busyteacher.org/4016-how-to-lead-discussions.html

http://busyteacher.org/5760-7-tips-to-get-your-students-speaking-easily.html

http://busyteacher.org/3644-how-to-motivate-esl-students.html

http://busyteacher.org/10274-what-every-speaking-teacher-needs-to-know.html

http://busyteacher.org/5618-4-great-textbooks-general-english-students.html

http://busyteacher.org/10366-what-every-teacher-adult-esl-students-needs-know.html

http://busyteacher.org/7373-how-to-distribute-talking-time-between-students.html

http://busyteacher.org/7824-top-10-role-plays-for-your-speaking-class.html

http://busyteacher.org/4218-7-ways-to-turn-the-boring-coursebook-into.html

http://busyteacher.org/4836-how-to-evaluate-speaking.html

I hope at least some of them will be of use to you:) I�m not sure if they will qualify for a research paper though...

Sophia

12 May 2012

Magda_teacher

Thanks Sophia!

Many of those articles are useful for me Big smile

Big smile

Magdalena

12 May 2012

cindyfreksen

Try Jeremy Harmer Teaching English...
I can �t remember the whole title, but it is full of good stuff. We used it at my teacher training college!

13 May 2012