"it's a resource for developing awareness knowledge and critical thinking really" oh what a good achievement Mr Jack! and clearly if this book looks at specific general methods that have been used to teach english over the last hundred years, well this is not the book that we can underestimate and clearly too this is worth for teachers and students.
I haven't read that book yet.But I am sure is good and very useful especially in language teaching. Its highly recommended for every teacher or educator to increase their knowledge in teaching language.
Good resources in teaching and learning, more about how to reach teaching with the best practices. I think this is book very useful for future language teaching.
Mr Richards! I must congratulate you on your wonderful contribution to ELT. But I have my own reservations. Days were gone when only Literature was considered a powerful tool for enhancing language skills. What do our learners of English need more than the wonderful plays of Shakespeare, beautiful poems of Wordsworth, autobiographies of great leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, excellent books written by Shashi Tharoor and Natwar Singh? Language is quite unthinkable without literature. The hungry edge of appetite cannot be cloyed by bare imagination of a royal feast. Language skills cannot be developed in the absence of literature. What ELT theories were taught those days? What innovations were employed in approaches and methods those days? Didn't we have great leaders with powerful language skills. Traditional methods of teaching are done away with. As a result, learners suffer and suffocate in interviews without good communication skills. There are ELT theories to confuse learners. Language teaching and learning is most joyful. But unwanted theories have collapsed everything. Literature must be enlivened to make language live. Truth is better, but I must call the spade the spade. Pl read the books written by Nehru, Shashi Tharoor, Justice Krishna Iyer, Srinivasa Sastry, Natwar Singh, Margaret Alva. Only study of literature helped them develop their language skills, no approach, no method and no technique. If you read them, you will understand that Indians, in using English, are second to none, even to the English. All ELT theories must be done away with. Literature must be as powerfully used as possible in language classes. These are my humble views, Mr Richards. I share my own views with you as you are the one most respected by me.
I'm also from Jordan, and I'm taking this book as a material textbook in English Language Teaching Methods course this semester. Well, it's very useful for future teachers.
Your book is so methodological, and full of Scientific words but I guess it's just what every non-fictional book do? I hope you can make your wording in book much clearer for ESL though
