Creativity and Innovations in ELT Materials Development - Looking Beyond the Current Design

This book challenges current practices in ELT materials design in order to transform coursebook quality. It proposes ways to improve task design through resources such as drama, poetry, literature and online resources; and it maps out a number of unusual connections between theory and practice in the field of ELT materials development.

About the author

Dat Bao is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Understanding Silence and Reticence: Ways of Participating in Second Language Acquisition (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Summary

This book challenges current practices in ELT materials design in order to transform coursebook quality. It proposes ways to improve task design through resources such as drama, poetry, literature and online resources; and it maps out a number of unusual connections between theory and practice in the field of ELT materials development.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dat Bao (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781783099696
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-969-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 543 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a; New Perspectives on Language and Education; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology