English Language Teaching Materials: Theory

This volume presents a union of theoretical and practical pedagogical perspectives on materials design and development. This volume provides an incisive overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. Seventeen original chapters explore the issues involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of materials in language programs in a wide variety of settings and contexts. This stimulating collection considers different approaches to materials design - including teacher-developed classroom materials, commercial materials, and technology-driven materials. Discussion questions and tasks follow each chapter to make this volume useful to both prospective and practicing teachers alike.

Nigel Harwood is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

Contributors	p. vii
Series editor's preface	p. ix
Introduction
Issues in materials development and design	p. 3
Perspectives On Materials
Second language acquisition research and language-teaching materials	p. 33
The theory and practice of technology in materials development and task design	p. 58
Principles of effective materials development	p. 81
Critical praxis as materials development: Responding to military recruitment on a U.S. campus	p. 109
Materials for the Language Syllabus
A principled approach to content-based materials development for reading	p. 131
A genre-based approach to developing materials for writing	p. 157
Listening as process: Learning activities for self-appraisal and self-regulation	p. 179
Materials to develop the speaking skill	p. 207
Developing materials for discipline-specific vocabulary and phrases in academic seminars	p. 225
Materials for Specific and Academic Purposes
Materials for university essay writing	p. 251
Writing for publication: Corpus-informed materials for postdoctoral fellows in perinatology	p. 279
Research-based materials to demystify academic citation for postgraduates	p. 301
Making professional academic writing practices visible: Designing research-based heuristics to support English-medium text production	p. 322
English for nursing: Developing discipline-specific materials	p. 346
Using textbook and real-life data to teach turn taking in business meetings	p. 373
Designing materials for community-based adult ESL programs	p. 395
Author index	p. 419
Subject index	p. 428
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