TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH IN SECONDARY

This book is a guide for teachers of a second language (L2),particularly English, whose aim is to develop their career in Spanishformal secondary education. It is a practical approach to the state of the art in L2 teaching and learning nowadays, meant to provide thereader with sound teaching principles and examples of good practices,based on our own experience as L2 teachers and teacher trainers. Itsmain audience is teachers in preparation and novice teachers justbeginning in the profession, who can read this on their own or in thecontext of a pre-service training course. It may also be of use forpractising teachers who want a hands-on introduction to the currentstate of L2 teaching and learning, because it is grounded on a solidempirical and theoretical background. We hope that by reading thisbook, teachers will be equipped with the rudiments of the professionso that they can adapt these principles and examples to the individual needs of their students and become successful mediators betweenmaterials, syllabi and the students themselves.María Fernández Agu?ero (coord.) is an associate professor at theDepartment of Languages and Language Teaching of Autónoma Universityof Madrid. She coordinates the English major of UAM's Master's Degreein Secondary Education.Diana Cembreros is the director of the Master's Degree in SecondaryEducation at Camilo José Cela University in Madrid. She is anuniversity professor with more than fifteen years of experienceteaching at secondary and university education.Isabel Fernández Agu?ero is a secondary English teacher at IES MiguelDelibes, a state school of secondary education in Torrejón de laCalzada (Madrid). She has also been training future EFL teachers forover ten years at university level.Lourdes Pomposo Yanes is an assistant professor at the Department ofApplied Linguistics of Politécnica University of Madrid.