Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching: Building Bridges

by Rea-Dickins; Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780582303737
• ISBN10: 0582303737
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-10-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teachingfocuses on the connections to be made between evaluation and change in language education with a specific focus on English Language Teaching. The book demonstrates the central importance of evaluation in relation to language projects and programmes, the management of change and innovation, and in improving language teacher development. The introductory chapter provides an overview of the present trends in evaluation as well as offering examples of recent evaluation projects. Subsequent chapters identify contemporary issues in evaluation and their relevance to language teaching, covering a number of cultural and ethnographic studies in evaluation management in different world-wide contexts, as well as drawing insights from other related disciplines. The editors seek to draw attention to the possibilities of inter-disciplinary exchange to inform the reader of current practice, and highlight emerging issues in the expanding field of evaluation in language teaching, especially in ELT. The contemporary nature of the studies presented here will be relevant to both post graduate students following language education programmes as well as to professionals involved in language teaching. It will be of particular interest to those involved in the management of innovation and the evaluation of projects and programmes, such as curriculum developers, Director of Studies, and professionals with a special responsibility for bringing about change in language teaching contexts.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xi	(2)
Editors' acknowledgements	xiii	(1)
General editor's preface	xiv
Introduction	1	(2)
1 The price of everything and the value of nothing: trends in language programme evaluation	3	(18)
P. Rea-Dickins
K.P. Germaine
Part I Evaluating innovation in language education	21	(84)
Introduction	23	(2)
2 Evaluating the implementation of educational innovations: lessons from the past	25	(26)
Kia Karavas-Doukas
3 Language and cultural issues in innovation: the European dimension	51	(27)
Celia Roberts
4 Programme evaluation by teachers: issues of policy and practice	78	(27)
Richard Kiely
Part II Managing evaluation and innovation	105	(82)
Introduction	107	(4)
5 Using institutional self-evaluation to promote the quality of language and communication training programmes	111	(21)
R. Mackay
S. Wellesley
D. Tasman
E. Bazergan
6 Managing developmental evaluation activities in teacher education: empowering teachers in a new mode of learning	132	(27)
Tricia Hedge
7 Managing and evaluating change: the case of teacher appraisal	159	(28)
Jane Anderson
Part III Views from the bridge	187	(82)
Introduction	189	(6)
8 Evaluating the discourse: the role of applied linguistics in the management of evaluation and innovation	195	(25)
Adrian Holliday
9 Evaluating and researching grammar consciousness-raising tasks	220	(33)
Rod Ellis
10 Linking change and assessment	253	(10)
Michael Fullan
11 Eavesdropping on debates in language education and learning	263	(6)
Elliot Stern
Bibliography	269	(22)
Index	291