Fluency in English / Practice and progress / Developing skills

Fluency in English / Practice and progress / Developing skills - L. G. Alexander

Fluency in English - 1981r., 198s.

Practice and Progress - 1985r., 232s.

Developing skills -  1979r. 145s.

Louis George Alexander (15 February 1932 – 17 June 2002) was a British teacher and writer, the author of New Concept English and the Direct English Syllabus and Course Structure, an author of EFLcourse books. In 1977, he sold 4.7m books, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the greatest number of copies sold by an individual author in one year. In the 1980s Alexander wrote reference books such as Longman English Grammar (1988; practice book 1990) and Longman Advanced Grammar (1993). In the late 1980s he worked for UNESCO on Junior English for China course.He created the blueprint for the Survive self-study series (1980–83, reissued 1989) for modern languages and published courses in the field of computer-assisted language learning.  In 1986-88 he was adviser to the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate for the Cambridge Certificate in English for International Communication. He was a writer of EFL course materials from the 1960s onwards. Alexander consistently supported the cause of the relatively untrained non-native speaking teacher of English.