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Materials Development for TESOL : Edinburgh Textbooks in TESOL - Freda Mishan

Materials Development for TESOL

By: Freda Mishan, Ivor Timmis

Paperback | 31 May 2015

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The fundamental principles of materials development in TESOL

Materials are at the very centre of language teaching, and understanding what goes into creating them is an essential part of a language teacher's professional development.

Offering a practical introduction to the fundamental principles of materials development in TESOL, this textbook introduces you to a wide range of theoretical and practical issues in materials development to enable you to make informed and principled choices in the selection, evaluation, adaptation and production of materials.

Advocating a principled approach to the creation of materials, it combines an awareness of relevant language learning and teaching theory with a critical attitude to existing published materials. It also encourages critical reflection by demonstrating how choices need to be informed by an awareness of culture, context and purpose.

Material Development in TESOL's stimulating approach, with thought-provoking, interactive tasks, online resources, and added perspectives from international research, makes it an ideal textbook for language teacher programmes around the world, equipping TESOL student teachers and practicing teachers with the frameworks, resources and practical skills necessary to carry out effective evaluations and to develop principled materials in practice.

  • Written specifically for TESOL practitioners and those studying TESOL teaching
  • Accessible presentation of concepts and research
  • Accompanying website provides additional online resources and materials
  • Interactive tasks and further reading suggestions
  • Encourages students to critically reflect on their choices of materials
Industry Reviews

From the perspective of a director of MAs in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, I appreciate that this course (1) pulls together a wide range of relevant literature up to 2014, (2) emphasizes the importance of applying principles based on second language acquisition studies, (3) considers issues related to diversifying English across the globe, and (4) contains useful thought-provoking tasks and activities including some examples of materials developed by the authors.

--Hitomi Masuhara, University of Liverpool "TESOL Quarlerly "

This volume provides a rich and comprehensive resource for academics and teacher-educators designing or teaching on this type of module... As a resource for lecturers it provides really good, challenging and thought-provoking study tasks, and a helpful checklist of topics to be covered and key issues to discuss. It would also provide a really useful resource for students as key reading. It fills the space between very practical handbooks for teachers on aspects of materials writing and more theoretical volumes on principles and processes of materials writing.

--Nick Andon, King's College London "ELT Journal "

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