1st Edition

Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching Building Bridges

316 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Managing Evaluation and Innovation in Language Teaching focuses on the connections to be made between evaluation and change in language education with a specific focus on English Language Teaching. The book demonstrates the central importance of evaluation in relation to language projects and programmes, the management of change and innovation, and in improving language teacher development.... Read more
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
General Editors Preface

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: Trends in Language Programme Evaluation

Part I: Evaluating Innovation in Language Education
Introduction
Chapter 2: Evaluating the Implementation of Educational Innovations: Lessons from the Past, Kia Karavas-Doukas
Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Issues in Innovation: the European Dimension, Celia Roberts
Chapter 4: Programme Evaluation by Teachers: Issues of Policy and Practice, Richard Kiely

Part II: Managing Evaluation
Introduction
Chapter 5: Using Institutional Self-Evaluation to Promote the Quality of Language and communication Training Programmes, Ron Mackay, Sally Wellesley, D. Tasman and E. Bazergan
Chapter 6: Managing Developmental Evaluation Activities in Teacher Education: Empowering Teachers in a New Mode of Learning, Tricia Hedge
Chapter 7: Managing and Evaluating Change: the Case of Teacher Appraisal, Jane Anderson

Part III: Views from the Bridge
Chapter 8: Evaluating the Discourse: the Role of Applied Linguistics in the Management of Evaluation and Innovation, Adrian Holliday
Chapter 9: Evaluating and Researching Grammar Consciousness-Raising Tasks, Rod Ellis
Chapter 10: Linking Change and Assessment, Michael Fullan
Chapter 11: Eavesdropping on Debates in Language Education and Learning, Elliot Stern

Bibliography
Index

Biography

Pauline Rea Dickins, Kevin Germaine, Pauline Rea-Dickins