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Case Studies in Language Curriculum Design

Concepts and Approaches in Action Around the World

Edited by John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation

Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge – 216 pages

Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

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Description

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.

Contents

Preface

  1. Introduction

    2. Paul Nation and John Macalister

  2. A survival language learning syllabus for foreign travel

    3. Paul Nation and David Crabbe

  3. Design meeting context: A general English course for Burmese adults

    4. Katie Julian and Derek Foster

  4. Designing English language courses for Omani students

    5. Angela Joe

  5. My ideal vocabulary teaching course

    6. Paul Nation

  6. Opening the door to international communication: Peruvian officials and APEC

    7. Susan Smith

  7. Helping skilled migrants into employment: The workplace communication program

    8. Nicky Riddiford

  8. The blended language learning course in Taiwan: Issues & challenges of instructional design

    9. Gi-Zen Liu

  9. Designing the assessment of a university ESOL course

    10. John Read and Lizzy Roe

  10. Refreshing a writing course: The role of evaluation

    11. John Macalister

  11. Localizing Spanish in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership: Develoopiing and using a ‘teachable’ curriculum

    12. Donald Freeman, Maria Coolican and Kathleen Graves

  12. Learning to teach Spanish: Identifying, inducting, and supporting apprentice teachers in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership

    13. Donald Freeman, Maria Coolican and Kathleen Graves

  13. Negotiated syllabuses: Do you want to?

    14. Andrew Boon

  14. Enhancing consumerist literacy practices in an urbanizing community

    15. Moses Samuel and Saratha Sithamparam

  15. The teacher as intermediary between national curriculum and classroom

    16. Kevin Parent

  16. Developing a blogwriting program at a Japanese university

Patrick Foss

　

Author Bio

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.

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Description: Edited by John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation. 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...
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