Developing Materials For Language Teaching Brian Tomlinson Pdf. Developing materials for language teaching brian tomlinson there have been a number of books published on various aspects of materials development for language teaching but developing materials for language teaching is the only one which provides a comprehensive coverage of the main aspects and issues in the field. Tomlinson reference tomlinson and tomlinson 1998b.
Material developers might write textbooks tell stories bring advertisements into the classroom express an opinion provide samples of language use or read a poem aloud. Reference tomlinson and tomlinson 2011b proposes fifteen principles for materials development which derive from second language acquisition sla research and from his experience and a number of other writers outline principled approaches to developing elt materials in tomlinson. This second edition brings it completely up to date and expands on the original book.
Material developers might write textbooks tell stories bring advertisements into the classroom express an opinion provide samples of language use or read a poem aloud.
Brian tomlinson is a visiting professor at leeds metropolitan university uk. Strangely though he does not point out the role that materials development as a course of study or as a practical endeavour can achieve in helping teachers to articulate reflect on and develop their awareness of language learning and to gain confidence self esteem creativity and criticality see for example tomlinson 2013 2014. Contents contributors vii prefac e i x brian tomlinson part 1 introductio n 1 1 language acquisition and language learning materials brian tomlinson part 2 different types of materials 15 2 materials for general english 17 hitomi masuhara and brian tomlinson 3 materials for teaching english to young learners 38 wendy arnold and shelagh rixon 4. 36 full pdfs related to this paper.
