Learner English: A Teacher's Guide to Interference and other Problems (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers) Paperback – 14 May 2001

This is an excellent book that can be used by anyone planning to teach English in either a school or privately. It can be used by all levels and abilities. It can also be used to either teach English or as an independent reference book. It covers all aspects of the language in terms of Syntax, Grammar, and much much more. I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in learning or teaching the English language.

For every english learner as a second language and wants to understands what’s happening between L1 and other languages. For CELTA students it’s a must

A great book that will help you pass your CELTA - assignment 3. You would not be able to pass without this book as it is the only one that gives you very detailed infortmation on the specific mistakes L2 learners make. I strongly recommend this book if you studying to become a TEFL teacher - it will help you understand why L2 learners make the mistakes they make and will help you find the right approach how to teach your students avoid these mistakes.

I used this book while I was on my CELTA course as a reference for several of my written assignments, and found it to be invaluable! As I aim to take my teaching abroad, this book will come in handy pretty much wherever I go.The sections are very clearly laid out, and the explanations of the common problems that students have with English due to their L1 are very clear and easy to follow. The phoneme tables are especially helpful for planning pronunciation lessons for, for example, a group of students that are all Spanish.It's also just incredibly useful to know when a student is making an error based on direct translation from their own language, or an error that comes from somewhere else. It will also help your students if you've read up on their language, because you'll be able to empathise more easily with the difficulties they may have!All in all, great. Speedy delivery, much faster than expected, and the book was in perfect condition.

This is a really great little resource that is full of helpful information about different learners' L1s, to help you understand your student and where some of their problems with English might be coming from, quickly and easily. There are a lot of different languages included, but it would be better if there were more still. Having this resource is great for understanding a student early on, makes planning lessons and finding materials that address the specific problems much easier and this helps towards building a great relationship with your students who feel understood and that they are working towards their goals with more speed and accuracy. I recommend this book.

Of course you need your grammar books and inspirational books like Thornbury's but what do you actually need to know how to help individaul students and their problems when they meet English................. you need Learner English. Its a revelation to understand why Poles or Koreans have the problems they do. Of course if you have taught for 30 years you should know it all but we don't and I thank the team of writers they have asked who have given us the analysis of those language speakers have when learning english. I don't wish to sound ungrateful but I hope a 3rd edition will one day add even more languages.It doesn't matter whether you are straight off a CELTA or have taught for 20/30 years you will find your practice enlightened and helped by this book

Excellent book for both the CELTA and DELTA. It explains the difficulties of language learners broken down by countries / languages spoken citing specific items of phonology and syntax based on their primary language. This resource is a "MUST HAVE" whenever writing the lengthy DELTA LSA papers, DTA, Experimental Assignment and the Specialism (Modules 2 and 3). I

Helped me through my CELTA course. Was extremely useful for one of my assignments. I continue to use this book as I have students from around the world studying with me. Helps to understand potential and real language problems.