Further reading on topics related to this issue:

Team Work: Interactive Tasks to Get Students Talking
(Jason Anderson, Delta Publishing, 2004)

Reflecting on Classroom Communication in Asia
(Thomas Farrell, Longman Pearson, 2004)

Reward ( a series of 3 levels) - Communicative activities for students of English
(Susan Kay, Macmillan Heinemann, 1999)
these are provided by the British Council and are available in new provinces.

Classroom English for Teachers
(Chandika Prasad Bhatta, Kishore Offset Press, Nepal, 2004)

The Mixed Ability Class
(Richmond Publishing 2004)

Suggested website

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk
A website with lots of teaching tips, articles, lesson plans and downloadable activities.

VTTN resource books

There is a set of VTTN resource books in each province. These cover many aspects of teaching, from theory and methodology to practical classroom activity books covering all four skills, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and testing. Amongst these books of particular relevance to the " Promoting Classroom Communication" workshops are:

Helping Students to Speak
(Paul Seligson, Richmond Publishing, 2005)
Classroom English
(Bryan Gardner & Felicity Gardner, OUP, 2005)

Please contact your provincial ELT specialist or co-ordinator for more information

Useful ELT websites
www.learningenglish.org.uk
www.searchingenglish.org.uk
www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant/index.html.
www.eslcafe.com
www.edufind.com
www.radio-locator.com
www.manythings.org
www.readwritethink.org
www.english-forum.com

And here are some new tried and tested ones!
www.education.guardian.co.uk/tefl
www.englishdaily626.com
www.elllo.org
www.onestopenglish.com

Please let us know any websites that you want to share with other VTTN teachers.
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