Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #508866 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 84 pages

Customer Reviews

Poorly presented
This book should really be described as a booklet, because it is an A5 sized manuscript that contains only 84 pages.

The material is presented in a most unorthodox manner - material is arranged into chapters and sub-chapters, but these are not presented on the different pages, for example - p19 contains the two final sub-chapters of chapter three, and the first section of chapter four!

There are very few tables, no diagrams, and references are provided in a manner which is difficult to follow and look them up without the aid of a computerised search facility.

New developments in the ELT field are included - for example CALL - but these are rather poorly described and insufficient space is afforded. Indeed, the entire document suffers because it is clearly designed to be succint and it attempts to cover a wide range of material that should be dealt with at length.

In writing the review I have attempted to consider whether or not the booklet is indeed a "handbook" for English teachers. Indeed, it "scratches the surface" of a great many issues - but it is very hard to find the information in the first place!

However, White does include a great deal of useful information - and this book can be read from cover to cover. There is nothing in this manual that isn't contained in any other good ELT textbook.