English Language Teaching Textbooks [electronic resource] : Content, Consumption, Production /
Harwood, N.editor.
English language teaching textbooks (or coursebooks) play a central role in the life of a classroom. This edited volume contains research-informed chapters focusing on: analysis of textbook content; how textbooks are used in the classroom; and textbook writers' accounts of the materials writing, design, and publishing process.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Content, Consumption, and Production: Three Levels of Textbook Research; Part I: Studies of Textbook Content; 2 All Middle Class Now? Evolving Representations of the Working Class in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of ELT Textbooks; 3 Reading Comprehension Questions: The Distribution of Different Types in Global EFL Textbooks; 4 Teaching English Reading: What's Included in the Textbooks of Pre-Service General Education Teachers?; Part II: Studies of Textbook Consumption
5 Teachers' Conceptualization and Use of the Textbook on a Medical English Course6 An Experienced Teacher's Use of the Textbook on an Academic English Course: A Case Study; 7 Global Textbooks in Local Contexts: An Empirical Investigation of Effectiveness; Part III: Studies of Textbook Production; 8 Writing Materials for Publication: Questions Raised and Lessons Learned; 9 An Interdisciplinary Textbook Project: Charting the Paths Taken; 10 Tensions between the Old and the New in EAP Textbook Revision: A Tale of Two Projects; 11 Chaosmos: Spontaneity and Order in the Materials Design Process
Author IndexSubject Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English language teaching textbooks (or coursebooks) play a central role in the life of a classroom. This edited volume contains research-informed chapters focusing on: analysis of textbook content; how textbooks are used in the classroom; and textbook writers' accounts of the materials writing, design, and publishing process.
Language and languages—Study and teaching.
Language and education.
Linguistics.
English language.
Language Teaching.
Language Education.
Linguistics, general.
English.