| Teachers as Course Developers Contributor(s): Graves, Kathleen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 052149768X ISBN-13: 9780521497688 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $57.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1996 Annotation: Teachers as Course Developers uses a unique case study approach to show how language teachers themselves - rather than curriculum specialists - develop and implement their own courses. Featured are the stories of six teachers who successfully designed their courses in different settings in Japan, the United States, and Latin America. The book provides a framework for the processes of course development which any teacher can use in planning his or her own courses. Each chapter highlights a different aspect of the framework based on the particular teacher's approach and examines how that teacher utilized or departed from the framework in order to meet the challenges of a particular situation. A set of tasks and discussion questions follows each narrative. An annotated bibliography is also included. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language |
| Dewey: 428.007 |
| LCCN: 95000829 |
| Series: Cambridge Language Education |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is a book about how language teachers themselves rather than curriculum specialists develop and implement their own courses. The paperback edition illuminates the process of course development through the narratives of six ELT teachers who have designed courses in widely varying contexts worldwide. Graves provides a framework for course design and examines how these six teachers have utilized or departed from the framework in meeting the challenges of their particular situations. Each narrative is followed by an analysis and a set of tasks that direct the reader's attention to a particular aspect of the framework. |