English Learning Maximisation System: A Learning-Centred Approach

✍ Scribed by João Canoquena

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This English language teaching (ELT) theory book is packed with case studies, empirical research, reflections and methods for the maximisation of English language learning. It is designed to help English teachers boost the potential for learning to occur in language classrooms. Written in response to student complaints of not learning anything, this book examines, reflects upon and interprets the process of English language learning from a students perspective. In order to significantly reduce the likelihood of the emergence of such complaints from students, the book suggests a focus on learning by presenting a new philosophy of English language teaching: namely, the English Learning Maximisation System (ELMS). This new ELT theory holds that students learn the English language best when their learning experience engages them cognitively and behaviourally.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Charts
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations & Acronyms
Introduction
Part I: The Phenomenon: What Has Happened?
1. The Student Complaint
2. Handling a Student Complaint
Part II: Making Sense of it All: What Does it Mean?
3. The Perception of Learning
Part III: Potential Causes of “Not Learning Anything”: What Might Explain It?
4. Causes of the Student Complaint
Part IV: Case Studies
5. The English Language Textbook
6. Student Feedback
7. Teaching Styles
8. The Learning Experience
9. Teacher Management Systems
10. Academic Managers
11. Students’ Own Lifestyles
12. The ESL Teacher Profile
13. Students' Proficiency Levels
14. Lack of Information
15. Relief Teachers
16. Task-based Teaching
Part V: Alternative: Focus on Learning
17. A New Paradigm
18. English Learning Maximisation System
19. Promoting ELMS
Conclusion
About the Author
Appendices
Bibliography
Index