Product Description

Designed specially for postgraduate TESOL and Applied Linguistics students, this Reader provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing and understanding how ELT classroom curricula can be analysed,developed and evaluated.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #495404 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
'This volume brings to the fore diverse, fundamental issues about the processes and politics of curriculum change and improvement, new technologies, and concepts of language use, communication, and instruction vital to guiding the organization and practices of teaching English internationally.' - Alister Cumming, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

'Experienced English language instructors seeking to deepen their knowledge and abilities will find this series forms a coherent basis to develop their understandings of current trends, sociocultural diversity, and topical interests in teaching English as a second or foreign language around the world. All three volumes provide ample flexibility for discussion, interpretation and adaptation in local settings.' - Alister Cumming, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

'In a principled and accessible manner, these three volumes bring together major writings on essential topics in the study of English language teaching. They provide broad coverage of current thinking and debate on major issues, and an invaluable resource for the contemporary postgraduate student.' - Guy Cook, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Reading

'The strong representation of the seminal Anglo-Australian development of the European functional tradition in the study of language and language education makes this a refreshingly bracing series, which should be widely used in teacher education for English language teaching.' - Euan Reid, Institute of Education, University of London

'This three-part series offers a map to ELT research and practice....it represents the best that ELT, as an Anglo-Saxon institution, has developed over the last 30 years for the teaching of English around the world... Readers will find in this series the Who's Who guide to this dynamic and expanding community.' - Clare Kramsch, Berkeley, California

'This series provides a collection of essential readings which will not only provide the TEFL/TESOL student and teacher with access to the most up-to-date thinking and approaches to the subject but will give any person interested in the subject an overview of the phenomenon of the use and usage of English in the modern world. Perhaps more importantly, this series will be crucial to those students who do not have available to them articles that provide both a wide spectrum of information and the necessary analytical tools to investigate the language further.' - Joseph A. Foley, Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organisation, Regional Language Centre, Singapore

From the Back Cover
Innovation in English Language Teaching provides both theoretical perspectives and practical tools for analysing, developing and evaluating English language teaching curricula. It presents English language teaching in a variety of specific institutional, geographic and cultural contexts.
This Reader focuses particularly on curriculum change in context. The articles - which include both classic and specially commissioned pieces - have been selected and edited to highlight the debates, discussions and current issues from different parts of the English-speaking and English-using world.
Academics and teachers from around the world examine the role and influence not just of language teachers and students, but of parents, teacher-trainers, the local community, the press, politicians, and all who have an interest in what goes on in the language classroom. Issues are illustrated and discussed in different contexts, including: teaching migrants in English speaking countries; teaching large classes in developing countries; teaching English for academic purposes; using information technology in the classroom.
Articles by: Michael P. Breen; Kimberley Brown; Christopher N. Candlin; David R. Carless; Ronald Carter; Guy Cook; Susan Feez; Kevin Germaine; Kathleen Graves; David R. Hall; Ann Hewings; Martin Hewings; Adrian Holliday; Gary M. Jones; Clarice Lamb; Joan Lesikin; Defeng Li; Numa Markee; Michael McCarthy; David Nunan; Pauline Rea-Dickins; Zakia Sarwar; William Savage; Simon Sergeant; Graeme Storer