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Reading on ELT Materials II

Title :
Reading on ELT Materials II

Editor :
Jayakaran Mukundan

This collection of papers on English Language Teaching (ELT) materials is part of the on-going effort to promote debate and discussion on issues in the field. Reading on ELT Materials II is the product of the Second ELT Materials Symposium held in Damai Laut, Perak in 2005. Among the writers whose works are presented here are Brian Tomlinson, founder of the Materials Development Association or MATSDA and Hitomi Masuhara, the co-founder of MATSDA. Others include Alan Maley (who is a constant inspiration to MICELT), Jane Spiro, Bao Dat, Chaz Pugliese, Marc Helgesen and Ten Bee Tin.

Contents

Localising the Global: Matching Materials to the Context of Learning
Brian Tomlinson

English for Science or Science for English: Designing Content-Based Materials for Language Teaching
Randal Holme

Materials as a Teacher-Development Tool
Hitomi Masuhara

Becoming a Second-Language Story Writer
Jane Spiro

Where Do New Ideas Come From?
Alan Maley

Breaking Stereotypes in Coursebooks
Bao Dat

The Text-Driven Approach
Brian Tomlinson

Helping Students Sing a Better Song: Multiple Intelligences Theory in the Classroom
Chaz Pugliese

English in 3-D: A Fresh Look at Traditional Tasks
Marc Helgesen

'Seeing' Culture in Language Teaching Materials: A Second Thought
Tan Bee Tin

Reading Comics as Recreation
Mario Saraceni

Creating a Very Powerful Word-Learning System
Rob Waring

Are There New Ways of Evaluating ELT Textbooks?
Jayakaran Mukundan

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