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Brings together two areas of scholarship that have largely developed independently: materials development and teacher education
This book examines how pre-service and in-service teachers engage with teaching materials and the different processes implicated in materials development, such as their evaluation, adaptation, design and use. The chapters, written by well-known experts in the field, document the role of materials in the overall process of learning to teach English, including: how student-teachers engage in the process of materials development; how teachers learn to develop teaching materials; and how the instruction in materials development in both pre-service education and in-service development varies across different international contexts. Together they document the uneven provision of materials development instruction in teacher education, and the potential negative effects on pedagogy and classroom practice if this crucial aspect of teaching is left out of teacher training.
Luis Carabantes is a Senior Lecturer in Academic and Professional Communication at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has taught English as a Foreign Language in primary, secondary and higher education institutions in Chile and worked as a teacher educator in Chile and in the UK. He has written in-house and published materials, and researches teacher education and materials development.
Amos Paran is Professor Emeritus of TESOL at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. He has a background as a secondary EFL teacher and in writing supplementary skills books, coursebooks and exam practice materials for a range of contexts and publishers. He has published academic work on topics including using literature in language teaching, distance learning, and reading in an L2.
Chapter 1. Luis Carabantes and Amos Paran: The Nexus of Materials Development and Teacher Education
Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 2. Marina Bouckaert: Critically Reflective Practice: The Missing Link between Materials Development and Teacher Professionalisation
Chapter 3. Tamas Kiss, Freda Mishan and Csilla Weninger: Fostering Language Teachers’ Critical Cultural Awareness through Materials Development
Chapter 4. Sandy Millin: Developing a Competency Framework for Language Learning Materials Writing
Chapter 5. Germán Canale: A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Transformation in the Language Classroom: What’s in it for Teachers?
Part 2: Pre-Service Teachers
Chapter 6. Ana Cecilia Cad and Darío Luis Banegas: Student Teachers Designing Ethical Materials with GenAI
Chapter 7. Mario López-Barrios: No way? Development of Productive Skills in Low-contact EFL Contexts
Chapter 8. Richard Chinn and Joe Fagan: Materials Development in an MA TESOL with an Integrated Teaching Practicum
Chapter 9. Joyce Anku and Elvis ResCue: Bridging the Gap between Teacher Training and Classroom Realities: The Role of Materials Development in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Chapter 10. Abdullah Yıldız and Omer Faruk Coşkun: Artificial Intelligence and Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Materials Development
Part 3: In-Service Teachers
Chapter 11. Victor Birkner and Verenice Zuta: From Textbooks to Worksheets: Identity Construction and Materials Adaptation of a Novice Chilean English Teacher
Chapter 12. Fatima Zohra Boukeffa and Souad Boumechaal: Materials Development in Algerian Higher Education: Investigating the Nexus of Training, Practice, and Teachers’ Development
Chapter 13. Ben Beaumont and Luis Carabantes: Enabling and Assessing Teacher Learning through Materials Development: A Case Study of an In-service Professional Qualification
Chapter 14. Shanshan Yang, Masatoshi Sato, and Dingfang Shu: Teacher Emotion in Materials Writing: The Case of a Textbook Writing Project in Shanghai
Chapter 15. Jennifer J. MacDonald, Tracy Franz and Ayesha Mushtaq: Materials Development as Pedagogical Content Knowledge in English for Academic Purposes
Chapter 16. Matt Lucas: Digital Affordances for Student-teachers’ Materials Development in the EFL Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities in the Japanese Context
Chapter 17. Danny Norrington-Davies: Renegotiating Authenticities in Materials Writing