English language teaching materials : theory and practice
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- 9780521198561
- 428.24/ENG
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
English Language Teaching Materials: Theory and Practice provides an overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. This volume provides an incisive overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. Seventeen original chapters explore the issues involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of materials in language programs in a wide variety of settings and contexts. This stimulating collection considers different approaches to materials design - including teacher-developed classroom materials, commercial materials, and technology-driven materials. Discussion questions and tasks follow each chapter to make this volume useful to both prospective and practicing teachers alike.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part I Introduction:
- 1 Issues in materials development and design
- Part II Perspectives on Materials:
- 2 Second language acquisition research and language teaching materials
- 3 The theory and practice of technology in materials development and task design
- 4 Principles of successful materials development
- 5 Critical praxis as materials development: responding to military recruitment on a U.S. campus
- Part III Materials for the Language Syllabus:
- 6 A principled approach to content-based materials development for reading
- 7 A genre-based approach to developing materials for writing
- 8 Listening as process: learning activities for self-appraisal and self-regulation
- 9 Materials to develop the speaking skill
- 10 Developing materials for discipline-specific vocabulary and phrases in academic seminars
- Part IV Materials for Specific and Academic Purposes:
- 11 Materials for university essay writing
- 12 Writing for publication: corpus-informed materials for post-doctoral fellows in perinatology
- 13 Research-based materials to demystify academic citation for postgraduates
- 14 Making professional academic writing practices visible: designing research-based heuristics to support English-medium text production
- 15 English for nursing: developing discipline-specific materials
- 16 Using textbook and real life data to teach turn taking in business meetings
- 17 Designing materials for community-based adult ESL programs
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