Professional Development with Jack C. Richards

Each month we will be featuring Video and Audio Podcasts by Professor Jack C. Richards to support your teacher-training and professional development needs. The latest videos and podcasts will be featured right here, but to access the full series, please visit our YouTube Channel.

Videos

In this video, Professor Jack C. Richards discusses grammar.

In this video, Professor Jack C. Richards discusses communicative language teaching.

Audio Podcasts

coming soon

Pedagogical Booklets

In Creating Effective Language Lessons authors Jack C. Richards and David Bohlke examine the essential characteristics of good teaching that lead to the creation of effective lessons. By exploring the thinking, skills, and practices that expert teachers employ in the classroom, Richards and Bohlke outline the key principles that language teachers need to be familiar with in order to create and plan effective lessons while fostering a positive attitude toward learning in a student-centered classroom.

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Creating Effective Language Lessons

In Competence and Performing in Language Teaching, Jack C. Richards discusses what language teachers need to know and do to be effective classroom practitioners and language teaching professionals. By exploring the knowledge, beliefs, and skills that exemplary language teachers consistently make use of – focusing on ten core dimensions of language teaching expertise and practice – Jack C. Richards helps conceptualize the nature of competence, expertise, and professionalism in language teaching.

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Competence and Performance in Language Teaching