Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook: Theory and Practice

The ' Teaching English' series offers a mixture of methodology and practical ideas for teachers of English as a foreign language. A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook fits into the series well as its overall objectives are to clarify fundamentals of language coaching (LC) with definitions and descriptions of processes to a wider audience of language and communication professionals, education and learning specialists. It defines and identifies differences from language teaching and training. It describes areas in language acquisition and language usage, communication it can support and how it can be applied and implemented, with theory, case studies and novel tools immediately applicable in classes. Based on coaching and applied linguistics etc. literature, personal research conducted in the author's lessons and sessions, feedback from clients and teachers trained and who also apply LC as the author understands it. A Comprehensive Language Coaching Handbook is distinctive in that it is a comprehensive guide to how LC emerged from coaching and various traits of corporate training and BE training, covering a wide scope of fields and disciplines influencing LC.