Oxford Day

Nov 18, 2007 at 7:53 PM
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You might recall that I wrote about Oxford Day a while ago. It was yesterday. I of course went and found it to be very informative. I also recieved a couple of free textbooks that I will look at a little later when I have more free time.

Oxford also had all of their textbooks, teacher resources, and linguistics books on sale at 20% off. I of course took advantage of this opportunity to abuse my credit card. I picked up two books; Doing Task Based Teaching by Dave Willis & Jane Willis as well as Teaching English as an International Language by Sandra Lee McKay.

I will be reading the Task Based Teaching book immediately after final exams are completed and graded. In spring semester I will be doing some research with my students use a Task and looking at the effectiveness of the task. Clearly some more theoretical background information will help to inform the research.

I'm definitely looking forward to reading both of these books and applying some of what I learned at the conference to my classes.