Being a Language Teacher

Lopez-Burton Norma

"Being a Language Teacher" provides an innovative, personal approach to second language teaching. Through illustrative personal anecdotes, this text guides new and aspiring language teachers through key pedagogical strategies while encouraging productive reflection by classroom veterans. An ancillary website provides online videos to complement the text by showing an experienced teacher applying the book's lessons. In a market dominated by dense theoretical approaches to language pedagogy, this text provides an instantly accessible, practical set of teaching tools for educators at all levels. Its accessible style and affordability give it the flexibility to serve as either a primary or a supplementary text for teaching assistants, students in credential programmes, or undergraduates in applied linguistics courses.

About the Author

Norma Lopez-Burton teaches Spanish at the University of California – Davis and has directed its first-year Spanish programme since 1994.

Reviews

"The more I read, the more I appreciated the depth of the content" – Orlando Kelm, University of Texas-Austin

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