Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Glossary of basic terms for materials development in language teaching -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: principles and procedures of materials development -- Part A Data collection and materials development -- 2 Using corpora in the language classroom -- 3 Concordances in the classroom without a computer: assembling and exploiting concordances of common words -- 4 Telling tails: grammar, the spoken language and materials development -- Comments on Part A -- Part B The process of materials writing -- 5 A framework for materials writing -- 6 Writing course materials for the world: a great compromise -- 7 How writers write: testimony from authors -- Comments on Part B -- Part C The process of materials evaluation -- 8 The analysis of language teaching materials: inside the Trojan Horse -- 9 Macro- and micro-evaluations of task-based teaching -- 10 What do teachers really want from coursebooks? -- 11 The process of evaluation: a publisher's view -- Comments on Part C -- Part D The electronic delivery of materials -- 12 Developing language-learning materials with technology -- 13 New technologies to support language learning -- Comments on Part D -- Part E Ideas for materials development -- 14 Seeing what they mean: helping L2 readers to visualise -- 15 Squaring the circle - reconciling materials as constraint with materials as empowerment -- 16 Lozanov and the teaching text -- 17 Access-self materials -- Comments on Part E -- Conclusions -- Recommended reading -- Index.

Comprehensively revised and updated to take account of the impact of technology on the field of materials development.

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