Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
John Macalister is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He specialises in the fields of language teaching methodology and curriculum design and draws on experience in teacher education and curriculum design in Thailand, Cambodia, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Namibia.
I.S.P. Nation is Professor in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In addition to books, his extensive list of publications on teaching and learning vocabulary, language teaching methodology, and curriculum design, includes journal articles, book chapters and book reviews. He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland and Japan.
Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws on and is clearly linked to a single model presented in Nation and Macalister’s Language Curriculum Design (www.routledge.com/9780415806060), giving the book a high degree of coherence. A short commentary by the editors after each case highlights features of note and/or issues arising from it. This is a versatile text, designed to work as a companion to Language Curriculum Design (adding meaning and depth to the model presented there by relating it to a range of applications), as a stand-alone text, or as a resource for language teacher trainees, teacher educators, practicing teachers, program administrators, and materials writers in the field.
This casebook covers a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offers in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues. Each case draws on and is linked to the model presented in Nation and Macalister’s Language Curriculum Design.
Preface
- Introduction
Paul Nation and John Macalister
- A survival language learning syllabus for foreign travel
Paul Nation and David Crabbe
- Design meeting context: A general English course for Burmese adults
Katie Julian and Derek Foster
- Designing English language courses for Omani students
Angela Joe
- My ideal vocabulary teaching course
Paul Nation
- Opening the door to international communication: Peruvian officials and APEC
Susan Smith
- Helping skilled migrants into employment: The workplace communication program
Nicky Riddiford
- The blended language learning course in Taiwan: Issues & challenges of instructional design
Gi-Zen Liu
- Designing the assessment of a university ESOL course
John Read and Lizzy Roe
- Refreshing a writing course: The role of evaluation
John Macalister
- Localizing Spanish in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership: Develoopiing and using a ‘teachable’ curriculum
Donald Freeman, Maria Coolican and Kathleen Graves
- Learning to teach Spanish: Identifying, inducting, and supporting apprentice teachers in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership
Donald Freeman, Maria Coolican and Kathleen Graves
- Negotiated syllabuses: Do you want to?
Andrew Boon
- Enhancing consumerist literacy practices in an urbanizing community
Moses Samuel and Saratha Sithamparam
- The teacher as intermediary between national curriculum and classroom
Kevin Parent
- Developing a blogwriting program at a Japanese university
Patrick Foss
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
John Macalister is Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He specialises in the fields of language teaching methodology and curriculum design and draws on experience in teacher education and curriculum design in Thailand, Cambodia, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Namibia.
I.S.P. Nation is Professor in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In addition to books, his extensive list of publications on teaching and learning vocabulary, language teaching methodology, and curriculum design, includes journal articles, book chapters and book reviews. He has taught in Indonesia, Thailand, the United States, Finland and Japan.