Materials Development in Language Teaching

by Brian Tomlinson (Editor)

Overview

Materials Development in Language Teaching Second edition suggests new ideas and directions in materials development, which readers can pursue for themselves. It is accessible to readers with little previous experience in the field and is essential reading for all those involved in developing materials for language teaching. For the second edition, each chapter has been comprehensively revised and includes two chapters that assess the potential of electronic media for materials development. This book will be of interest to teachers everywhere who wish to look more closely at the relationship between their teaching materials and their language classes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521157049
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Publication date:	04/07/2011
Series:	Cambridge Language Teaching Library
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

1 Using corpus data in the classroom; 2 Concordances in the classroom without a computer; 3 Telling tails: grammar, the spoken language and materials development; 4 A framework for materials writing; 5 Writing course materials for the world; 6 How writers write; 7 Piloting - a publisher's view; 8 The analysis of language teaching materials; 9 The evaluation of communicative tasks; 10 What do teachers really want from coursebooks?; 11 Seeing what they mean: helping L2 readers to visualise; 12 Squaring the circle - reconciling materials as constraint with materials as empowerment; 13 Autonomy and development: living in the materials world; 14 Lozanov and the teaching text; 15 Access-self materials.

Editorial Reviews

'This is a useful and thought-provoking book which discusses the world of materials development from pedagogical, academic and commercial angles. There is much for the practising language teacher to reflect on and use, in an area which still has plenty of room for development.' QATESOL, 1998

'… a number of features make this book a candidate for reading lists on TESOL courses. The examples selected are from current text books for both school age and adult learners, there is a balance between theory and examples, writers draw on a combination of theoretical bases and their own experiences ...' TESOL in Context, 1998

From the Publisher