商品詳細

Equip your students with the knowledge and skills to teach English well. Teaching English well is important for every primary school teacher, but it can also seem overwhelming-and for good reason. The amount of English content that must be taught throughout primary school is considerable. Speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, and creating are social practices that rely on highly complex cognitive processes, require specialised knowledge about the English language, and an understanding of how children develop literacy skills to use English for different communicative purposes. Teaching and Learning Primary English is written for initial teacher education (ITE) students and practising primary school teachers. It addresses the complexities of English teaching and aims to build deep understandings of the most important aspects of primary English education. It will assist ITE students and practising teachers navigate the often complicated, crowded, and interconnected landscape of English education. This text is more compact and designed to cater for those single subjects and comprehensively cover the necessary topics in an easy to understand manner for pre-service teachers without overwhelming them. It is focused at first year and second year pre-service teachers looking to teach primary English. It uses current theories and relevant best-practice to help students navigate the vast amount of content that is taught to throughout primary English. It's written with primary teachers in mind and includes current theories and best-practice strategies on how to teach primary students speaking, listening, reading and writing.