Books to buy for CELTA

The following books are essential purchases for CELTA. You can either buy them before you come to Barcelona or they are available at the school for purchase.

Methodology


Scrivener, Jim. Learning Teaching: Macmillan Heinemann ELT
OR


Harmer, Jeremy. The Practice of English Language Teaching: Longman

Grammar


Swan, Michael. Practical English Usage (latest edition): Oxford University Press
OR

Parrott, Martin. Grammar for English Language Teachers: Cambridge University Press

 
The Lewis School of Languages ®
Sabino de Arana, 32 Interior, baixos 2ª
08028 Barcelona - Spain

Barcelona has a wide network of public libraries where you can borrow books for free.

Librarie

"Do the pre-course work. You can reduce the workload and stress factor greatly by doing some pre-course studying. Read the recommended methodology books, do the whole of the pre-course task and take time to work on raising your language awareness."

Sezgi

Sezgi Yalin, CELTA course tutor

"I think the pre-course task is very important in order to get the trainees to start thinking about grammar."