Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language, Second Edition: A Teacher Self-Development and Methodology Guide

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Acknowledgments

Teaching Englishas a Foreign or Second Language A Teacher Self-Development and Methodology Guide Second Edition JERRY G. GEBHARD Ann Arbor The University of Michigan Press Copyright© by the University of Michigan 2006 All rights reserved ISBN 0-472-03103-1 Published in the United States of America The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 2009 2008 2007 2006 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gebhard, Jerry Greer. Teaching English as a foreign or second language : a teacher self-development and methodology guide / Jerry G. Gebhard.—2nd ed. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-472-03103-0 (pbk. : acid-free paper) ISBN-10: 0-472-03103-1 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. English language—Study and teaching—Foreign speakers. 2. English teachers—Training of. I. Title. PE1128.A2G38 2006 428.0071’1—dc22 2005054949 2014 2013 2012 2011 6 5 4 3 ISBN-13: 978-0-472-02792-7 (electronic) The presentations of tables, figures, and/or images are dependent on the device and display options. Some image content or language characters may have been removed or may be altered depending on the device used to read this eBook. This second edition is dedicated to my wife, Yoko Kato Gebhard, on our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Acknowledgments I sincerely thank Maria Saryuz Sarska, Dong Xu, and Tim Conrad for assisting me with research during the development of the first edition of this book. I also want to thank Tom McClaren for assisting me with research on technology, Theresa Tseng for her feedback and research into technology, and both Theresa and Qisi Zhang for helping me to update the appendixes on publishing companies and journals for the second edition. I also thank John Fanselow, Thomas Farrell, Pamela Friedman, Barbara Hill Hudson, Joe O’Connor, Judi Moy, and Lilia Savova for reading and commenting on the first edition of the book at different stages in its development, as well as Nancy Bell and Amy Minette for reading and giving thoughtful feedback on Chapter 3 in the second edition. I thank the administration at the American Language Institute (ALI) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) for their consent to observe and photograph classes; Mary Beth Mahler, Zubeyde Tezel, and Trikartikaningsih for inviting me into their classes; the students in their ALI classes for being so very cooperative. I also want to thank Tim and Kerry Conrad for their ongoing support. I also thank the many graduate students in the Ph.D. Program in Rhetoric and Linguistics for commenting on chapters in the first edition , students in the Ph.D. Program in Composition and TESOL on chapters in the second edition, and students in the MA TESOL Program for feedback on both editions. Finally, I would like to thank Kelly Sippell for her support and patience as I recreated this book into a second edition. v ...