Books for teachers

These are the books I’ve written for teachers of English for Cambridge University Press, DELTA and Pavilion.

Here is a list of methodology books I have written for teachers of English.

Live Online Teaching with Jill Hadfield Pavilion Publishing 2021

Live Online Teaching aims to help teachers with live online teaching on platforms such as Zoom, Teams etc. The book offers practical tips to help teachers with the various tools offered by the platforms. This includes features such as shared screens and breakout rooms. In addition, it offers creative activities for teaching online asynchronously. 

Interaction Online with Jill Hadfield Cambridge University Press 2017

The book is relevant for use with online, blended or face-to-face courses and appropriate for a wide range of teachers, learning situations and institutional settings. This handbook contains over 75 tried and tested activities, suitable for a range of levels, which provide opportunities for strong online interaction. The introduction outlines the rationale and principles of interaction, as well as discussing tools for online interaction and the implications for teaching and learning. There are guidelines for setting up and managing online interaction and on using the learner-produced texts for feedback, error correction and assessment.

Teaching Online with Nicky Hockly DELTA Publishing 2010

Teaching Online is essential reading for any teacher interested in online teaching and course delivery. It deals comprehensively with both the tools and the techniques necessary for online language instruction. It is a clear, accessible and reassuringly practical book in which the authors share their wealth of experience in teaching both fully online and blended courses.

The Language Teacher’s Survival Handbook with Duncan Foord iT’s For Teachers 2008

What do English teachers carry with them in their bags? What can we do when classroom technology malfunctions? How do we survive year after year? This books gives teachers practical support and ideas on how to deal with key challenges in their work both inside and outside the classroom.

Dealing with Difficulties with Luke Prodromou DELTA Publishing 2007 

Dealing with Difficulties is packed with ideas for dealing with the everyday difficulties and challenges of teaching:

Dealing with Difficulties covers how to attract and keep students’ attention and how to really help them learn a language through more than 150 techniques and activities.

The techniques and activities in Dealing with Diff iculties require a minimum of preparation and aim to maximise speaking and interaction in the classroom