Developing Materials for Language Teaching

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