Syllabus Design and Materials Development

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77469-120-5
Verlag: Society Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This book takes a theory to practice approach on language syllabus design, materials evaluation and development, and to develop understanding of appropriateness of materials for specific target groups. The book aims to foster a working awareness of the methodological issues involve is syllabus design. The contents serve to develop and implement the lesson integrating for adopting, adapting, and developing language instructional units. The key feature of this book is to develop language instructional materials for young learners, electronic language instructional material, materials for cultural awareness, and EAP/ESP instructional materials. The book takes different approaches in curriculum development that lead into the practical aspect of situation analysis and language curriculum development, project work, discourse-based, genre-based, and competency-based language curriculum development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barjesteh, Hamed

Manoochehrzadeh, Mehdi

Heidarzadi, Mohamad

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Chapter 1 Adoption, Adaptation, and Development of Language Instructional Unit
- Chapter 2 Structural Syllabus, Functional/Notional Syllabus
- Chapter 3 Situational, Topical, and Lexical Syllabus
- Chapter 4 Task-Based Syllabus
- Chapter 5 Developing Language Instructional Materials for Young Learners
- Chapter 6 Developing Electronic Language Instructional Material
- Chapter 7 Developing Materials for Cultural Awareness
- Chapter 8 Developing EAP/ESP Instructional Materials
- Chapter 9 Situation Analysis And Language Curriculum Development
- Chapter 10 Project Work as Part of Curriculum Development
- Chapter 11 Discourse-Based and Genre-Based Curriculum Development
- Chapter 12 Competency-Based Language Curriculum Development
- Chapter 13 Constructivism and Language Teaching Development

Über Autor(innen)

Hamed Barjesteh is an assistant professor of Education, Professor of applied linguistics, and a faculty member of Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli branch, Amol, Iran. A teacher educator for 20 years, Hamed Barjesteh has published several books and articles on teaching English to young and adult language learners and presented at conferences at various national and international levels. He has trained teachers and supervised many MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations. He serves as the head of English Language department, an editor and a reviewer for various journals and conferences. His research interests lies in the field of critical language pedagogy, thinking skills in language learning, Critical Language testing, dynamic assessment, and corrective feedback.