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Essay Instructions: I kindly need a full chapter discussing (Recommendations for Communicative Language Teaching in Libya). Communicative language teaching is not implementing in Libyan classrooms due to challenges encountering its implementation such as teachers' low proficiency, lack of recourses, large clas, class time shortage, and many other contextul factors. Please spcify them and suggest recommendations for all of the challenges. Please check different sourses in the web and relevant dissertations and thees.

Essay Instructions: Chapter 2 Literature Review
~ Communicative competence (1100 words)
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kurazumi/peon/ccmodel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_competence
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/mmresearch/Students97/Carel/#sectionI
http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/goalsmethods/goal.htm
http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/GudlnsFrALnggAndCltrLrnngPrgrm/AspectsOfCommunicativeCompeten.htm

~Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) (1100 words)
-principles and characteristics of CLT
-communicative activities
-teachers' roles in CLT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_language_teaching#Overview_of_CLT http://www.monografias.com/trabajos18/the-communicative-approach/the-communicative-approach.shtml

~Implementation of CLT in ESL and EFL (e.g. Greek, South Korea) countries (550 words)
Karavas-Doukas, E. (1996). Using attitudes scales to investigate teachers'attitudes to CLT. ELT Journal, 50(3), 187-198.
Li, D. (1998). "It's always more difficult than you plan and imagine": Teachers' perceived difficulties in introducing CLT in South Korea. TESOL Quarterly, 32(4), 677-703.

Essay Instructions: "Is CLT (communicative language teaching ) the best methodology for teachers to follow when preparing students for the Cambridge First Certificate Exam?"

1. Introduction
2. Detailed outline of the CLT methodology
3. Description of the exam, Cambridge FCE
4. Analysis of what the exam appears to be assessing and how
5. Analysis ? to what degree CLT is an appropriate methodology for the FCE exam preparation class
6.Conclusion

Essay Instructions: Focus: Socio-cultural factors affecting curriculum and syllabus designin TESOL
Topic:The concept 'Learner-centred curriculum' in TESOL;
Websites:
http://www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/ccc/index.html#return (Cross-Cultural Communication: An Essential Dimension of Effective Education By ORLANDO L. TAYLOR, Ph.D. Good text: This is a very useful text for TESOL students. I am pleased that Dr. Orlando Taylor made it available for us to read.)
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/foreignlang/conf/grammar.html
The role of grammar in communicative language teaching: An historical perspective . Diane Musumeci.
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed357642.html
Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction and Sample Activities by Ann Galloway.
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/comlangteach/index.htm Communicative language teaching
http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/00/feb/willis.html (A Holistic Approach to Task-Based Course Design.
http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/98/oct/littledam.html (Learner Autonomy: What and Why?)
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Currie-MITheory.html
Multiple Intelligence Theory and the ESL Classroom -- Preliminary Considerations by Karen L. Currie
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/docs/article2.html
Teaching Thinking Dispositions: From Transmission to Enculturation by Shari Tishman, Eileen Jay, and D. N. Perkins


http://alt.venus.co.uk/VL/AppLingBBK/DB/kinahan/results.htm (This paper is the result of a study on learning strategies used by second language learners. It is related to the study mentioned in the below Website on a study on interlanguage. It is very interesting and usefull, for practical and theoretical interest. You may enjoy it.)
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed389029.html (Oral Language Development across the Curriculum, K-12.)
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/rpl_esys/collab.htm (What Is the Collaborative Classroom?)
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Lessons/Gibson-StoryTelling.html (A Story-Telling and Re-Telling Activity
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Techniques/Counihan-Interaction.html (Teach Students to Interact, Not Just Talk)
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Articles/Lamie-Textbooks.html (Making the Textbook More Communicative)
http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm (A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association)
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html (Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association. You should read this as it tells you how to do referencing in your essays or thesis. APA referencing is very widely used in many publications.)