Recognizing that teachers are often involved in planning and developing courses as part of their responsibilities, the authors have set out to describe the factors which must be considered in constructing courses and materials. They cover: the fact-finding stage, establishing realistic goals, surveying existing programmes, realizing goals through instructional plans, selecting the shape of the syllabus, and considerations involved in constructing communicative curricula and syllabuses. All of these aspects are considered against current theories of language learning. Examples of different types of materials are discussed, and the process of creating materials is described as the link between the syllabus and the audience. It ends with a survey of the practical issues involved in organizing writing projects. It is intended for teachers (and teachers in training) who may be involved in course planning and materials development either on a larger scale, or simply within their own institution.
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Cambridge University Press, New York, Oxford University Press, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Englewood Cliffs, Moral for Any Age, Newbury House, Louis Slotin, Pergamon Press, Silent Way, United States, Penguin Books, New Mexico, Suzanne Griffin, English Alpha, New Jersey New!
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- Cohesion in English (English Language Series) by M. A. K. Halliday on page 105, page 166, and Back Matter
- Collaborative Language Learning and Teaching (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by David Nunan in Front Matter
- The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski on page 154
- Collins Gem Body Language: How to Understand the Unspoken Language of Your Body by David Lambert on page 60
- Appropriate Methodology and Social Context (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by Adrian Holliday in Front Matter
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- Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers Series) by Tricia Hedge on page 373, and Back Matter
- Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by David Nunan on page 95, and Back Matter
- The ELT Curriculum: Design, Innovation and Mangement (Applied Language Studies) by Ronald White on page 93, and Back Matter
- Society and the Language Classroom (Cambridge Language Teaching Library) by Hywel Coleman on page 57
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