Focuses on the students: their backgrounds, characteristics, experiences, and first languages, and shows how all these affect them as learners. Develops your understanding of how English works and what might make its structure confusing for learners, and shows you how to apply this knowledge to your teaching. Gives teachers new to ESOL (for example teachers of English as a Foreign Language or of adult literacy) a complete introduction to ESOL teaching. Enables experienced ESOL teachers to check and update their knowledge of recent developments, new approaches, and research findings. Provides teacher trainers with a valuable resource for training ESOL teachers.