Newspapers

Peter Grundy

Resource Books for Teachers

Practical, creative and original ideas show teachers how they can make effective use of English-language newspapers in the classroom.

Peter Grundy

Newspapers

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Acknowledgements

This book would not have been possible without the help of many others, particularly Zack Alassani, Bill Harris, Stan Hetherington, Richard Hondy, Tomoko Kato, A M Mango, Chitra Narshi and John Simelane, all MA in Applied Linguistics students at the University of Durham, who, together with a long-suffering group of language learners, collaborated with me during a memorable week of experimental, mixed ability language teaching which relied exclusively on newspapers. I am also grateful to successive generations of EAP students at Durham, who tolerated my enthusiasm for newspapers on socialization courses, and to the PET �Britain Today’ teachers at Pilgrims in 1989 who provided valuable comments on my ideas.

When this project was at an early stage, I received a long letter from John Morgan, which contained several characteristically brilliant ideas that I have since tried for myself and included in this book. I am also indebted to my colleague, Arthur Brookes, for many fruitful discussions and insightful comments, and in particular for the Appendix which he generously donated to this book.

When I first approached OUP with my ideas, Alan Maley wrote several thoughtful letters which have had a shaping role in this book, as has OUP’s anonymous reader of my sample submission, which was both encouraging and corrective, and OUP’s two further anonymous readers of the first draft of the book whose suggestions for improvements were gratefully received and acted on.

At OUP Anne Conybeare and Julia Sallabank worked hard to improve the manuscript and tidy up what was formerly a less exact text.

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