Teaching Materials and the Roles of Efl/Esl Teachers: Practice and Theory - Softcover

Mcgrath, Ian

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ISBN 10: 1441143696 ISBN 13: 9781441143693

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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Teaching Materials and the Roles of EFL/ESL Teachers: Practice and Theory is aimed at postgraduate students and would be an ideal core text for a module on materials development.
Times Higher Education

[A] valuable resource for postgraduate students, researchers, and teacher educators in the area of TESOL. What it reveals about how coursebooks are actually used will also make it salutary reading for publishers and coursebook writers. With his measured tone and a balanced approach which takes into consideration all sectors of the language teaching community, McGrath gives us a very readable, thought-provoking, and welcome addition to the steadily growing body of literature on materials development.
ELT Journal

A strength is that the author brings together perspectives of materials, teachers, learners, contexts, and teacher education that other similar texts often deal with in a less than adequate way. The book succeeds as a primer for those seeking to explore different elements of materials evaluation and design. I would even suggest that the current text is a must-read resource for pre-service teachers and in-service teachers as well as those interested in language materials evaluation and development.
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Teaching Materials and the Roles of EFL/ESL Teachers is published amidst a decade long increase in academic publications and training courses concerned with the evaluation and design of English language teaching materials. It is timely to consider what effect the advice on offer has had on teachers' practice. Are teachers evaluating materials carefully, using textbooks in the ways expected by textbook writers, developing their own materials, and mediating between materials and learners in the ways advised in the professional literature?

The book explores these issues from a variety of perspectives. The views of publishers/textbook writers, those contributing to the professional literature, and teacher educators are synthesised to establish a 'theory' of how teachers can best fulfil their roles vis-Á -vis materials and learners. This is then compared with 'practice', as represented by published accounts of teachers' actual practices and learners' perspectives. The conclusion reached is that teacher education in materials evaluation and design is essential and suggestions are offered as to the form this might take.

The book is intended particularly for MA students and teacher educators concerned with materials evaluation and design, but is of interest to all those concerned with the publication and use of English language teaching materials.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1441143696
• ISBN 13: 9781441143693
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258