ESL Grammar Publishers
A Start-up Guide to the Websites of English Language Grammar Texts.
The following publishers provide websites that not only list their ESL grammar textbooks, but they also allow you to find out more about the contents of each title.
How many students are in the class? How many nationalities are represented? How many languages spoken? Your youngest student is eighteen and your oldest sixty-three!? And you have to choose only one grammar book that will be a good fit for everyone in the class?
Choosing materials for an ESL grammar class can be a daunting task, particularly if you are new to teaching or are teaching a grammar class for the first time. The following publishing companies and their websites offer a list of texts that focus on teaching grammar to ESL students. In some cases, you can click on the title of the text to find its table of contents, or a brief excerpt from the text itself.
1. E.L. Easton Bookstores & Publishers Scroll down the first page until you reach the Grammar heading. Here you will find a list of 17 textbooks by various publishing companies. When you click on the title of each entry, you are sent to its listing within Amazon.com, where you can read a book description, find prices for used and new books, read reviews of the book, and even order it online. Underneath the list of grammar books, you will find ESL grammar titles written specifically for native Spanish speakers.
2. Heinle & Heinle, a division of Thomson Learning On this page, you will find a list of over 20 titles related to teaching grammar to ESL students. This list is organized starting with the most recently published titles. If you click on the title "Grammar Clips--A Brief Visual Guide to Grammar," you will find a description of this title, a list of key features, a clickable link to its supplements, and the option of ordering the product directly from the publisher.
There are many publishers putting out quality ESL grammar books, and the sites above are a good place for novice instructors to get their feet wet and for seasoned teachers to consider new options as they rethink or revise courses. In addition, many opportunities exist for instructors to take part in focus groups, write reviews of published material and material in manuscript, and even join with other authors to write supplements - in the long run maybe even creating a textbook of one's own.
But don't forget the reps! The following blog talks about how making contacts among the various publishing representatives may prove extremely rewarding to both teachers and students.
