Product Description

Designing Language Courses: A Guide for Teachers is a clear and comprehensive overview of course design. This text provides a practical guide to designing language courses by encouraging teachers to explore ways of planning and organizing content, and evaluating materials.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289113 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 308 pages

Customer Reviews

An Excellent book for experienced and inexperienced teachers
I have been teaching English for close to four years now and also have teaching for special purposes experience. However, I have just been offered a new challenge, to design a 40-hour Environmental English course for Environmental experts. Where do I start? The same place any teacher should start, with this book!

This book makes very interesting reading. I found it both inspiring and informed. It challenges you to start constructing your course straight away and to compare various teachers approaches. It makes you articulate your own teaching beliefs and covers everything from defining the context to assessment plans. After reading this book I am not only clear on what information I need from the school in order to get started, but I am also aware that my syllabus needs to be fluid and flexible, not set in stone.

The style of writing is the best I have come across in ELT literature. Don't design an ELT course without this book!