Learner English: A Teacher’s Guide to Interference and Other Problems 2nd Revised Edition

This updated edition is a practical reference guide which compares the relevant features of a student’s own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. Learner English has chapters focusing on major problems of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and other errors as well as new chapters covering Korean, Malay/Indonesian and Polish language backgrounds.

A practical reference book for English teachers, enabling them to anticipate common mistakes by learners from different language backgrounds.

Written in simple, accessible language and will be of particular interest to teacher trainers.

Each chapter covers one language background, written by specialists with experience in teaching students from the areas concerned. They describe and explain the most important typical pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and other mistakes of learners who speak Dutch-Flemish, Scandinavian languages (except Finnish), German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Polish, Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, South Asian languages (with a separate chapter on Dravidian languages), West African languages, Swahili, Malay/Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai.