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Herbert Puchta

Articles

2012. Bored Students? (source)

2012. Developing Thinking Skills In The Young Learners' Classroom. Cambridge English Language Teaching. (source)

2013. Motivating Teens Through Activating Their Brain's Own Reward. (source)

2014. Introducing Dr Herbert Puchta. TESOL Greece Blog. (source)

2014. Success Strategies In The Primary ELT Classroom. (source)

2015. Teaching Adult Learners With Herbert Puchta. EPALE (source)

2021. Spotlight On... Herbert Puchta. Cambridge ELT blog. (source)

A Different Kind of Reader. (source)

Beyond Materials, Techniques and Linguistic Analyses: The Role of Motivation, Beliefs and Identity. (source)

Article Sources

Herbert Puchta

Recommended books

Teaching Languages to Young Learners

Lynne Cameron

2001. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (source)

This book offers valuable insights into the principles of child-centred teaching and what happens when it is applied in classrooms .

Teaching Young Language Learners. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Annamaria Pinter

2017. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (source)

The author provides an accessible, comprehensible overview of the issues surrounding the teaching of young learners.

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners

Sue Garton, Fiona Copland (eds.)

2018. London: Routledge. (source)

The Routledge Handbook gives a comprehensive overview of the current state of teaching English to primary children – includes background research and practical advice.

Teacher Wellbeing

Sarah Mercer, Tammy Gregersen

2020. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (source)

Learner well-being is now a well-researched and written about topic in teaching English to all age groups. In this book, Sarah and Tammy look at the other, no less important, side of the coin – teacher wellbeing.

Carol Read’s 101 Tips for Teaching Primary Children

Carol Read

2020. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (source)

A wealth of very useful tips on the methodology of teaching English to children aged 6 – 12.

Place in HLT

Herbert Puchta’s valid and most crucial contributions to humanism in language teaching revolve around the way in which he has applied his professional interest in cognitive psychology, brain research and linguistics to the reality of language classrooms, as well as developing and giving teachers creative tools for to activate learners’ minds and hearts in the process of learning. His teaching ideas and materials help to involve the whole person in the act of learning by playing on one’s innate creativity, emotions and motivation. His inspirational publications and webinars on fostering creativity, self-respect and motivation in language learners across all age groups have been appreciated by teachers all over the world.

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