Preface / Brian Tomlinson -- Glossary of basic terms for materials development in language teaching / Brian Tomlinson -- Introduction: principles and procedures of material development / Brian Tomlinson -- Using corpora in the language classroom / Randi Reppen -- Concordances in the classroom without a computer: assembling and exploiting concordances of common words / Jane Willis -- Telling tails: grammar, the spoken language and materials development / Ronald Carter, Rebecca Hughes and Michael McCarthy -- Comments on Part A / Brian Tomlinson -- A framework for materials writing / David Jolly and Rod Bolitho -- Writing course materials for the world: a great compromise / Jan Bell and Roger Gower -- How writers write: testimony from authors / Philip Prowse -- Comments on Part B / Brian Tomlinson -- The analysis oflanguage teachinmaterials: inside the Trojan Horse / Andrew Littlejohn -- Macro- and Micro-evaluations of task-based teaching / Rod Ellis -- What do teachers really want from coursebooks? / Hitomi Masuhara -- The process of evaluation: a publisher's view / Frances Amrani -- Comments on Part C / Brian Tomlinson -- Developing language-learning materials with technology / Gary Motteram -- New technologies to support language learning / Lisa Kervin and Beverly Derewianka -- Comments on Part D / Brian Tomlinson -- Seeing what they mean: helping L2 readers to visualise / Brian Tomlinson -- Squaring teh circle -- Reconciling materials as constraint with materials as empowerment / Alan Maley -- Lazanov and the teaching text / Grethe Hooper Hansen -- Access-self materials / Brian Tomlinson -- Comments on Part E / Brian Tomlinson -- Conclusions / Brian Tomlinson
Summary
Comprehensively revised and updated to take account of the impact of technology on the field of materials development
