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Materials Development in Language Teaching "Tomlinson, Brian"

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ; Cambridge Language Teaching LibraryPublication details: United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 07/04/2011Edition: 2nd Revised editionDescription: 472 PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780521157049
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.24071 BRI
Contents:
ELT: teaching theory & methods
Summary: "Materials Development in Language Teaching aims to help readers apply current theoretical principles and research findings to the practical realities of developing and exploiting classroom materials. The authors also suggest new ideas and directions in materials development, which readers can pursue for themselves. This book 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. In the second edition of this highly popular title, each chapter has been comprehensively revised and updated to take into account both recent research and the significant technological developments since the first edition was published in 1998. Two new chapters have been added to assess the potential of electronic media for materials development. These chapters include an overview of the technologies available, as well as individual case studies and activities."
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

ELT: teaching theory & methods

"Materials Development in Language Teaching aims to help readers apply current theoretical principles and research findings to the practical realities of developing and exploiting classroom materials. The authors also suggest new ideas and directions in materials development, which readers can pursue for themselves. This book 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. In the second edition of this highly popular title, each chapter has been comprehensively revised and updated to take into account both recent research and the significant technological developments since the first edition was published in 1998. Two new chapters have been added to assess the potential of electronic media for materials development. These chapters include an overview of the technologies available, as well as individual case studies and activities."

ELT / TEFL

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. vii)
  • Glossary of basic terms for materials development in language teaching (p. ix)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xix)
  • 1 Introduction: principles and procedures of materials development (p. 1)
  • Part A Data collection and materials development
  • 2 Using corpora in the language classroom (p. 35)
  • 3 Concordances in the classroom without a computer: assembling and exploiting concordances of common words (p. 51)
  • 4 Telling tails: grammar, the spoken language and materials development (p. 78)
  • Comments on Part A (p. 101)
  • Part B The process of materials writing
  • 5 A framework for materials writing (p. 107)
  • 6 Writing course materials for the world: a great compromise (p. 135)
  • 7 How writers write: testimony from authors (p. 151)
  • Comments on Part B (p. 174)
  • Part C The process of materials evaluation
  • 8 The analysis of language teaching materials: inside the Trojan Horse (p. 179)
  • 9 Macro- and micro-evaluations of task-based teaching (p. 212)
  • 10 What do teachers really want from coursebooks? (p. 236)
  • 11 The process of evaluation: a publisher's view (p. 267)
  • Comments on Part C (p. 296)
  • Part D The electronic delivery of materials
  • 12 Developing language-learning materials with technology (p. 303)
  • 13 New technologies to support language learning (p. 328)
  • Comments on Part D (p. 352)
  • Part E Ideas for materials development
  • 14 Seeing what they mean: helping L2 readers to visualise (p. 357)
  • 15 Squaring the circle - reconciling materials as constraint with materials as empowerment (p. 379)
  • 16 Lozanov and the teaching text (p. 403)
  • 17 Access-self materials (p. 414)
  • Comments on Part E (p. 433)
  • Conclusions (p. 437)
  • Recommended reading (p. 443)
  • Index (p. 445)

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