Brief Instructional Guides

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With time at a premium, teachers need concise books that offer research-based overviews of the skills that they need to know and how to implement them in the classroom. Brief Instructional Guides (BIGs) are written by practicing teachers and scholars to provide resources for professional development. Learn more about this collection of books here.

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What Error Correction Can(not) Accomplish for Second Language Writers

Dispelling Myths, Discussing Options

By Dana R. Ferris
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL), Composition
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

Academic Speaking and the Boundaries of Routinized Lexical Phrases

Best of Michigan

By Susan M. Barone & Summer Dickinson
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL)
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

MOOCs

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Pamela Bogart
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL)
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

Flipping the Classroom

What Every ESL Teacher Should Know

By Robyn Brinks Lockwood
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL)
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

Content-Based Instruction

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Ann Maguerite Snow & Donna M. Brinton
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL), Education
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

Theory and Practice

Bite-Sized Activities for Teaching Reading Skills

By Aviva Katzenell
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL), Education, Higher Education
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

Provides theory-grounded activities and advice for adapting them to different reading levels

Teaching Speaking Online

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Pamela Bogart
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL)
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

The Three Minute Thesis in the Classroom

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Heather Boldt
Subjects: English as a Second Language (ESL)
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

Task-Based Listening

What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know

By Steven Brown
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL)
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)

SLIFE

What Every Teacher Needs to Know

By Andrea DeCapua
Subjects: Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, English as a Second Language (ESL)
Series: BIGs (Brief Instructional Guides)
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