Materials and Methods in ELT: A Teacher's Guide

Blackwell Applied Language Studies

by Jo McDonough, Christopher Shaw

Materials and Methods in ELT is an essential resource for teachers or for those engaged in taking professional courses relating to all aspects of English language teaching. Now available in its 3rd edition, this popular teachers’ guide offers a comprehensive and useful introduction to the principles and practice of teaching English as a foreign/second language. It examines the ideas behind current methodology and teaching materials, in addition to offering a practical guide to approaching materials and methods, evaluation and adaptation, technology for materials and methods, and teaching in under-resourced classrooms. These principles are then related to the individual language skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The authors examine the different methodologies available to teachers for organizing and running an ELT classroom; discussing group and pair work, individualization, classroom observation, and the teachers’ role in the contemporary ELT context. Updated throughout, the 3rd edition features a new section on technology for materials and methods, as well as a new chapter on IT in English language teaching, and inclusion of new samples from current teaching materials.

Genres: Education

354 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 28, 1993

Reviews

[Anastasia Tuple · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very user-friendly (i.e. nicely written and organised in logical order) reference book, and with practical as well as theoretical information on how to improve the four language skills in a foreign language (N.B. not only in an English language) classroom.