Developing Materials for Language Teaching

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. 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 "In this book we offer the informed and reflective practioner as the ideal agent for mediating between the practice and theory of language teaching. Some of the contributors might be labelled teachers, some materials developers, some applied linguists, some teacher trainers and some publishers, but all of them share four things in common: they have all had expereince as teachers of a second or foreign language, they have all contributed to the development of second language materials, they have are all well informed about developments in linguistic and psycholinguistic theory and they all have respect for the teacher as the person with the power to decide what actually happens in the classroom." --From the Introduction