New Book: English Language Teaching Materials: Theory & Practice

Please find details of a new edited book below on teaching materials, which contains quite a few EAP-related chapters.

English Language Teaching Materials: Theory & Practice (CUP)

ed. Nigel Harwood

Part I. Introduction:

1. Issues in materials development and design Nigel Harwood;

Part II. Perspectives on Materials:

2. Second language acquisition research and language teaching materials Rod Ellis;

3. The theory and practice of technology in materials development and task design Hayo Reinders and Cynthia White;

4. Principles of successful materials development Brian Tomlinson;

5. Critical praxis as materials development: responding to military recruitment on a U.S. campus Sarah Benesch;

Part III. Materials for the Language Syllabus:

6. A principled approach to content-based materials development for reading Norman Evans, K. James Hartshorn, and Neil J. Anderson;

7. A genre-based approach to developing materials for writing Chris Tribble;

8. Listening as process: learning activities for self-appraisal and self-regulation Christine Goh;

9. Materials to develop the speaking skill Rebecca Hughes;

10. Developing materials for discipline-specific vocabulary and phrases in academic seminars Martha Jones & Norbert Schmitt;

Part IV. Materials for Specific and Academic Purposes:

11. Materials for university essay writing Martin Hewings;

12. Writing for publication: corpus-informed materials for post-doctoral fellows in perinatology Chris Feak & John Swales;

13. Research-based materials to demystify academic citation for postgraduates Nigel Harwood;

14. Making professional academic writing practices visible: designing research-based heuristics to support English-medium text production Mary Jane Curry & Theresa Lillis;

15. English for nursing: developing discipline-specific materials Susan Bosher;

16. Using textbook and real life data to teach turn taking in business meetings Jo Angouri;

17. Designing materials for community-based adult ESL programs Cori Jakubiak and Linda Harklau.