Teaching English became a professional and academic field from a half century ago. Many researches for teacher education and teacher training have been conducted in order to raise the English as well as the foreign language trainers' knowledge and capabilities in carrying out effective lessons in classroom. During second millennium of speedily…

Describes a self-help reading club for English as a second language students in grades five to eight. The student teachers are older children; the pupils are those who need to improve their reading. The reading approach used in the club is described and logistical pointers are given. (SED)

Criticisms of the whole-language approach (WL) to English-as-a-Second-language teaching are addressed, focusing on concerns about reading and grammar instruction. Criticism of grammar instruction is refuted, arguing that WL does not view grammatical knowledge as prerequisite to language use. A modification of the WL approach to reading instruction…

A teacher experimented to determine whether ninth-grade nonreaders could progress in an Israeli English class for weak learners. All students worked on reading and listening skills, with nonreaders focused on vocabulary building and learning grammar in context; for readers, grammar instruction was more abstract. Students worked at their own paces.…

Preservice teachers must be properly prepared to teach English-as-a-Second-Language students to read. This article describes the informed approach to reading instruction, discussing what teachers need to know to be effective teachers of reading and offering recommended core requirements for preparing teachers (conceptual foundation, knowledge of…