Teaching Resources
SOAS Language Centre provides a range of support activities and resources to its teachers.
The articles you will find in our Teacher Resources pages are arranged according to language.
Many of the articles are in both the original language and in an English language version. Some of the articles deal with issues that are relevant to a specific language, but some of the articles will be of interest to teachers of other language since they deal with more general issues that relate to teaching any language.
Of interest to all teachers:
- Japanese-into-English translation. This essay outlines some strategies for teaching Japanese-into-English translation to a class of Japanese learners with native or near-native English ability.
Arabic
- Language Games for Learning Arabic - reasons for using games in the language classroom with examples and descriptions
- The Arabic Sound System and Teaching Pronunciation
- Teaching Words Roots and the Broken Plural
- Practical advice on the teaching of numbers
- Teaching "masdar"
Bengali
- Bengali Learning materials. A list of (mainly) books for use in the teaching and learning of Bengali. Compiled by Arif Billah
Burmese
- Language Games. Six games to stimulate learning, with descriptions of the activities.
- Fonts: to see the Burmese texts in these pages you will need to download the SOASMyanmar font for Windows. For more informatiopn about fonts and displaying Burmese characters, see "Fonts and Displaying Burmese Characters" on the Wa dictionary pages at SOAS.
Chinese
Japanese
- How to Teach Kana. This article aims to provide some suggestions on how to teach Kana together with some classroom materials.
- Japanese-into-English translation This essay outlines some strategies for teaching
- Japanese-into-English translation to a class of Japanese learners with native or near-native English ability.
- Teaching Different Degrees of Formality in Japanese. The use of formal language poses serious difficulties for students who learn Japanese as a foreign language. They study them as grammatical items at beginner level but the majority find that using them can be problematic.
- Your computer needs to be enabled for Japanese script in order to display the Japanese content of these documents. You can get enabling information for Windows 7 -- Windows Vista -- Windows XP -- Windows 2000 -- MacOS 10.1
Thai
- Tone rules in Thai. This article deals with the tones rules that govern spoken Thai and provides practice exercises for learners. Learners are given the opportunity to discover the rules for themselves in an interesting and challenging way.
