Synopses & Reviews
This book engages with current issues in developing materials for language teaching.
Review
'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
Review
'... 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
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.