This book provides a highly practical and accessible guide to teaching English as a second language. It is a comprehensive guide to lesson planning and testing, covering all four modes of language (reading, listening, talking, and writing) and the teaching of grammar and vocabulary. With a particular emphasis on the challenge of teaching large classes, the authors provide advice on methods and resources that will make classes both more enjoyable and more effective for teachers and students alike.

It should come as no surprise that poets are often exceptionally fine cooks, savoring food the way they savor words and at the same time recognizing that just as a gathering of words does not necessarily mean a good poem, neither does a mixture of ingredients necessarily mean a good recipe. In" Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate," the editors, all members of Dr. Paul Ruffin's 2014 graduate Editing/Publishing class, solicited recipes and food-related poetry and prose from Texas Poet Laureates of this millennia. The result is a most unusual gathering of personalities equally comfortable with...