Teaching Language Skills; Preparing Materials and Selecting Techniques

This book constitues a revised book of the module of TEFL 2 for Open University students published in 2007. This book addresses various materials and techniques for teaching the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. It also provides readers with materials and techniques of teaching integrated skilss. Each chapter has two sub-chapters, namely the planning stage of teaching language skills and choosing techniques in teaching the skills. The planning stage consists of selecting right materials and preparing materials for teaching every single skill. The following stage presents different techniques that may be considered for language teachers to teach each skill for different levels of language learners. Teaching Language Skills: Preparing materials and selecting techniques is intended for foreign language teachers as a reference to become profesional teachers.