Edizione	[Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (577 p.)
Disciplina	418.0071 418/.0071
Altri autori (Persone)	TomlinsonBrian
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Study and teaching Teaching - Aids and devices
ISBN	1-4411-7687-X 1-4411-5311-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Are Materials Developing?; What is materials development?; What are materials?; What are the issues in materials development?; Who should develop the materials?; What are the current trends in materials development?; What is the future of materials development?; MATSDA; Part A Evaluation and Adaptation of Materials; 1 Materials Evaluation; What is materials evaluation?; Principles in materials evaluation; Second language acquisition research (SLA); Types of materials evaluation Standard approaches to materials evaluationDeveloping criteria for materials evaluation; Conclusion; 2 Adapting Courses: A Personal View; Introduction; Adapting materials; A model for adapting courses; Conclusions; 3 Publishing a Coursebook: The Role of Feedback; Introduction; Nature of pathways and loops in materials development; Existence of feedback loops in materials development; The case of Singapore; Role and effectiveness of feedback in the case study; Incorporating feedback loops in the materials development process; Conclusion; Comments on Part A Part B Principles and Procedures of Materials Development4 Developing Principled Frameworks for Materials Development; Introduction; Principles in materials development; A text-driven approach to materials development; Using the framework; An example of the framework in use; A web-based adaptation of the framework; Other types of principled framework; Conclusion; 5 The Instructional Design of a Coursebook Is As It Is Because of What It Has To Do - An Application of Systemic Functional; Introduction; Concepts from systemic functional theory; The context of culture: The genre of the coursebook From theory to practiceThe plane of expression; Conclusion; 6 Humanizing the Coursebook; Introduction; Humanizing without the coursebook; Partial replacement of the coursebook; Humanizing with the coursebook; Developing humanistic coursebooks; Conclusion; 7 The Visual Elements in EFL Coursebooks; Introduction; Visuals in recent British coursebooks; What might we do with visuals in coursebooks?; Conclusion; 8 Creative Approaches to Writing Materials; Introduction; Part I: What is creativity?; How has creativity been applied?; Part II : Ideas for generating creative materials; Conclusion 9 Developing Digital Language Learning MaterialsIntroduction; Teacher-created digital materials; Student-created digital materials; Publisher- /Professionally created digital materials; Looking to the future; 10 Demystifying Blended Learning; Introduction; A framework for blended language learning; Blended learning tools; Blended language learning case studies; Conclusion; Comments on Part B; Part C Developing Materials for Target Groups; 11 Authors' Knowledge, Rationales and Principles - Steady Flow-Through or Stuck in the Publishing Pipeline? The Case of Ear; Introduction How coursebooks might give support
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910813779503321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	418/.0071
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Study and teaching
ISBN	1-107-13449-8 1-280-43427-9 0-511-17810-7 0-511-04265-5 0-511-14862-3 0-511-33043-X 0-511-60646-X 0-511-04588-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Principles and practices in teaching Superior-level language skills : not just more of the same / Betty Lou Leaver and Boris Shekhtman -- Toward academic-level foreign language abilities : reconsidering foundational assumptions, expanding pedagogical options / Heidi Byrnes -- Contexts for advanced foreign language learning : a report on an immersion institute / Heidi Byrnes -- Bridging the gap between language for general purposes and language for work : an intensive Superior-level language/skill course for teachers, translators, and interpreters / Claudia Angelelli and Christian Degueldre --Learning Chinese in China : programs for developing Superior- to Distinguished-level Chinese language proficiency in China and Taiwan / Cornelius C. Kubler -- Developing professional-level oral proficiency : the Shekhtman method of communicative teaching / Boris Shekhtman [and others] -- The LangNet "Reading to the four" project : applied technology at higher levels of language learning / Catherine W. Ingold -- In the quest for the Level 4+ in Arabic : training level 2-3 learners in independent reading / Elsaid Badawi -- Teaching high-level writing skills in English at a Danish university / Tim Caudery -- Heritage speakers as learners at the Superior level : differences and similarities between Spanish and Russian student populations / Claudia Angelelli and Olga Kagan -- Teaching Russian language teachers in eight summer institutes in Russian language and culture / Zita Dabars and Olga Kagan -- Understanding the learner at the Superior-Distinguished threshold / Madeline E. Ehrman -- Preliminary qualitative findings from a study of the processes leading to the Advanced Professioanl Proficiency Level (ILR 4) / Betty Lou Leaver with Sabine Atwell.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450133303321

Autore	Hall Joan Kelly
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina	418/.0071
Altri autori (Persone)	VitanovaGergana MarchenkovaLudmila
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Study and teaching
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-61133-5 1-282-32274-5 9786612322747 1-4106-1165-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Dialogue With Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning; 2 Mastering Academic English: International Graduate Students' Use of Dialogue and Speech Genres to Meet the Writing Demands of Graduate School; 3 Multimodal Rerepresentations of Self and Meaning for Second Language Learners in English-Dominant Classrooms; 4 Dialogic Investigations: Cultural Artifacts in ESOL Composition Classes; 5 Local Creativity in the Face of Global Domination: Insights of Bakhtin for Teaching English for Dialogic Communication 6 Metalinguistic Awareness in Dialogue: Bakhtinian Considerations7 ""Uh Uh No Hapana"": Intersubjectivity, Meaning, and the Self; 8 Authoring the Self in a Non-Native Language: A Dialogic Approach to Agency and Subjectivity; 9 Language, Culture, and Self: The Bakhtin-Vygotsky Encounter; 10 Dialogical Imagination of (Inter)cultural Spaces: Rethinking the Semiotic Ecology of Second Language and Literacy Learning; 11 Japanese Business Telephone Conversations as Bakhtinian Speech Genre: Applications for Second Language Acquisition; Author Index; Subject Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910449913403321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Clevedon, Hants, England ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (360 p.)
Disciplina	418/.0071
Altri autori (Persone)	HolmbergBörje ShelleyMonica WhiteCynthia <1956->
Collana	New perspectives on language and education
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Study and teaching Distance education
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-82847-1 9786610828470 1-85359-777-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Autonomy and the Distance Language Learner -- 2. Critical Reflection and Autonomy: A Study of Distance Learners of French, German and Spanish -- 3. Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Promotion of Collaborative Learner Autonomy in a Virtual Self-access Centre -- 4. Towards a Learner-based Theory of Distance Language Learning: The Concept of the Learner–Context Interface -- 5. Feedback in Distance Language Learning: Current Practices and New Directions -- 6. A Framework for Supporting Students Studying English via a Mixed-mode Delivery System -- 7. Assessing Intercultural Competence Gain in a German Distance Learning Course for Adults -- 8. Developing Professional Intercultural Communicative Competence: Reflections on Distance Learning Programmes for Language Educators and Translators/Interpreters in Bulgaria -- 9. Methods: Some Basic Considerations -- 10. Course Design for the Distance Learner of Spanish: More Challenges than Meet the Eye -- 11. Learner Autonomy and Course Management Software -- 12. Chatlines for Beginners: Negotiating Conversation at a Distance -- 13. Making Online Students Connect: Ethnographic Strategies for Developing Online Learning Experiences -- 14: From Parrots to Puppet Masters: Fostering Creative and Authentic Language Use with Online Tools -- 15. The Challenges of Implementing Online Tuition in Distance Language Courses: Task Design and Tutor Role -- 16. Closing the Distance: Compensatory Strategies in Distance Language Education -- 17. PLEASE (Primary Language Teacher Education: Autonomy and Self-Evaluation) -- 18. Exploring Zones of Interactivity in Foreign Language and Bilingual Teacher Education -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Subjects
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910449748203321