TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE
Chapter One　On Listening
　§1 Acquisition-oriented listening activities and inductive language learning
　§2 Types of learning-oriented listening

Chapter TWO　On Speaking
　§1 The audio-lingual method
　§2 Communicative Language Teaching
　§3 Communicative competence
　§4 Classroom activities to foster communicative
competence

Chapter Three　On Reading
　§1 Bottom-up and top-down reading approaches
　§2 Three-stage reading activities
　§3 Rapid reading

Chapter Four　On Writing　63
　§1 From composition to communicative writing
　§2 Authenticity
　§3 The process and product approaches

Chapter FIVE　On Pronunciation
　§1 General American English and Received
Pronunciation
　§2 Segmental or suprasegmental?
　§3 Sound modifications

Chapter Six　On Integration
　§1 Using a course book
　§2 Beyond a course book

Chapter Seven　Vocabulary Games
　　1 Pictograph
　　2 Odd one out
　　3 Hidden commonalities
　　4 Animal grid
　　5 Spelling bee
　　6 Charades
　　7 Scrambled words
　　8 Missing vowels
　　9 Secret code
　　10 Key words
　　11 Words within a word
　　12 Matching symbols with meanings

Chapter Eight　Classroom Dynamics
　§1 Optimal use of the board
　§2 Teacher talk
　§3 Pair work and group work
　§4 Four types of test evaluations

References
INDEX
ACTIVITIES INDEX