Developing Materials for Language Teaching

✍ Scribed by Brian Tomlinson (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 585
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Viewing current developments in materials development through the eyes of developers, users and researchers from all over the world, this book applies principles to practice. It provides a comprehensive coverage of the main aspects and issues in the field as well as critical overviews of recent developments in materials development, and acts as a stimulus for innovation.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction: Are materials developing? • Brian Tomlinson
Part 1 Evaluation and adaptation of materials
1 Materials evaluation • Brian Tomlinson
2 Adapting courses: A personal view • Claudia Saraceni
3 How are materials actually used? Instructor’s task enactment in L2 Spanish in higher education • Claudia R. Fernández
Comments on Part 1 • Brian Tomlinson
Part 2 Principles and procedures of materials development
4 Using text-driven and other principled frameworks for developing language learning materials • Brian Tomlinson
5 Humanizing the coursebook • Brian Tomlinson
6 Reading software is as it is because of what it has to do – A systemic functional approach to developing and evaluating digital materials • Duriya Aziz Singapore Wala
7 The visual elements in EFL coursebooks • Nicolas Hurst and David A. Hill
8 Creative approaches to writing materials • Alan Maley
9 Developing digital language learning materials • Thom Kiddle and Chris Farrell
10 Materials for Blended Learning • Pete Sharma
11 Designing for mobile learning • Nicky Hockly
Comments on Part 2 • Brian Tomlinson
Part 3 Developing materials for target groups
12 Language teaching materials for young and very young learners: Developmental framework • Irma-Kaarina Ghosn
13 Helping young learners to read in an L2 • Shelagh Rixon
14 Materials for Adults Resilience in the Face of Adversity: Inspiring and Motivating L2 Adult Learners of Beginner’s Spanish • Rosa-Maria Cives-Enriquez
15 Mining the L2 environment: ESOL learners and strategies outside the classroom • Naeema Hann
16 Materials for right to left scripted languages • Naeema Hann
Comments on Part 3 • Brian Tomlinson
Part 4 Developing specific types of materials
17 ‘The structure comes first’: How coursebooks commodify grammar • Scott Thornbury
18 Materials for teaching vocabulary • Paul Nation
19 Materials for developing reading skills • Hitomi Masuhara
20 Materials for developing writing skills • Ken Hyland
21 Developing materials for speaking skills • Dat Bao
22 Coursebook listening activities • Brian Tomlinson and David A. Hill
23 Developing competence in multimodal discourse • Kay L. O’Halloran
24 Towards intercultural competence: Materials for raising intercultural awareness • Freda Mishan
25 Corpora and materials: Towards a working relationship • Ivor Timmis
26 Materials for developing communicative ability • Brian Tomlinson
Comments on Part 4 • Brian Tomlinson
Conclusion • Brian Tomlinson
Index