Grammar books and Dictionaries
These resources benefit both teachers and pupils in several activities to enhance and stimulate the language.
The chart has some relevant point of each one.
Grammar books | Form and use of grammatical structures. |
For teachers | - Detailed explanations |
For learners | - To give essential information about grammatical structures |
| - A clear view about what students need. | |
| - Describing and explaining grammar in appropriate way. | |
For teachers and learners | - Useful practice exercises are incorporated. |
Dictionaries | Spelling, pronunciation and use of lexical items. |
For teachers | - To include example sentences, the form, and use of words. |
Bilingual Dictionaries | - Word and meaning are in different languages. |
| - To find an unknown word in the other language. | |
| - To guide about how to use a word. | |
Monolingual dictionary | - Word and meaning are in the same language. |
| - Defining words and giving examples. | |
| - To include features (collocations, antonyms, synonyms, idioms, etc). |
Reference:
Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2012). The TKT Course Modules 1,2 and 3 (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.