Materials Development in Language Teaching

by Edited by Brian Tomlinson

• ISBN13: 9780521157049
• ISBN10: 0521157048
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.

Author Biography

Brian Tomlinson is a Visiting Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University and a member of the. British Council English Advisory Group. He is also founder and president of the Materials Development Association (MATSDA).

Table of Contents

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