A series of classic texts from the British Council, made available online to celebrate the British Council's 75th and 80th anniversaries.

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Academic Writing: process and product
This volume, published in 1988, consists of papers from the eponymous 1985 University of Reading Conference.
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Activity days in language learning: Notes for teacher trainers
This booklet from 1977 accompanied a teacher training film about innovative ‘activity days’ at the British Council’s...
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An index to twenty-five years of English language teaching, 1946–1971
Published in 1972, this volume covers the first 25 years of the journal now known as ELT Journal. Compiled by the...
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Best of ELTECS
This 1995 publication celebrates the five-year history of ELTECS (the English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme), set...
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Common ground: Shared interests in ESP and communication studies
The editors of this 1984 volume in the ELT Documents series describe English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and...
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Culture and the language classroom
This 1990 collection of papers looks at contexts of language teaching from educational and cultural perspectives,...
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Developments in the Training of Teachers of English
This volume dates from 1979 and is a gem for anyone interested in the early days of university level ELT qualifications...
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Dictionaries, lexicography and language learning
This 1985 collection in the ELT Documents series provides multiple insights for the successful teaching of dictionary...
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ELT Guide-1: Communication games
Devised by the British Council’s English Language Teaching Institute (ELTI), specifically Donn Byrne and Shelagh Rixon...
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ELT Guide-2: Simulations
This 1979 ‘teaching aid devised by the English Language Teaching Institute’ was authored by David Herbert and Gill...
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ELT textbooks and materials: problems in evaluation and development
This frequently cited 1987 publication focuses on textbooks designed for use by English language learners, and...
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English as a Second Language in the United Kingdom
This is, of course, as much a key topic in the UK as it was in 1985 when this book was originally published.
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English as an International Language
This concise volume from 1978 is pre-‘World Englishes’ and before the acceptance of Kachru’s model of the inner, outer...
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English for academic study with special reference to science and technology: Problems and...
This seminal 1975 publication offers contrasting viewpoints on the then-emerging field of English for academic purposes...
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English for specific purposes
This 1978 publication focuses on English for academic purposes (EAP) also referred to at the time as English for...
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English for specific purposes: an international seminar
This report, which includes papers by John Munby, Henry Widdowson and Tom Jupp, was compiled following an international...
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English in the world: Teaching and learning the language and literatures
This book contains papers from an International Conference on ‘Progress in English Studies’ held in London between 17...
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English language teaching, volume 1 issue 1
The first issue of English Language Teaching, subtitled 'A Periodical Devoted to the Teaching of English as a Foreign...
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English studies information update 4: Inspectorate work and accreditation
Published in 1990, the overall theme of this in-house British Council publication is quality assurance of language...
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English teaching abroad and the British universities
This 1961 publication consists of papers from a high-level conference on University Training and Research in the...
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ESP for the University
This book, from 1986, provides a snapshot of developments in ESP teaching at university level during the 1970s and...
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ESP in the classroom: Practice and evaluation
The papers in this 1988 volume emerged from the International Conference on English for Specific Purposes, Colombo, Sri...
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Focus on the Teacher
Published in 1981, this slim volume is concerned with helping teachers to develop the commitment to and capacity for...
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Foreign and second language teaching in the USSR
This brief report was written following a fact-finding visit to the Soviet Union in 1962 by a delegation of British...
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Games, simulations and role-playing
This 1977 booklet from the ELT Documents series contains four main chapters and a postscript which introduce...
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General English syllabus design
This collection of papers emerging from the 1983 TESOL Convention in Toronto examines the role of general syllabuses in...
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Humanistic Approaches: an empirical view
This is a delightful read, which attempts to provide an introduction to latest thinking in 1982 on a wide range of...
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Index to English language teaching journal, 1972–1977
This 1977 publication supplements the Index to Twenty-Five Years of English Language Teaching, which covered the years...
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Individualisation in Language Learning
This publication, from 1978, provides a useful introduction to pioneer approaches to self-directed learning and...
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Individualization and autonomy in language learning
This 1988 publication consists of papers presented at the 1987 SELMOUS conference in Durham for EAP practitioners.
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