This publication is a result of the joint conference held by MATSDA and Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands, in Tilburg in June 2017. MATSDA is an international materials development association founded in 1993 which serves to bring together researchers, teachers, materials developers and publishers in an effort to improve the effectiveness of language learning materials. The 2017 conference centred on issues related to the development of meaning-focused materials for language learning, and attracted presenters from twenty-five countries stretching from Greenland to Brazil. These issues are reflected in the chapters in this volume, with each one focusing on a different aspect of meaning-focused materials and many of them introducing the reader to previously unexplored facets of the theory of meaning-focused instruction and its application to materials development. The contributions here are of essential value to post-graduate students, to teachers, to materials developers and to researchers. They are written to be academically rigorous, but at the same time accessible to newcomers to the field and to experienced experts alike.
Author(s): Marina Bouckaert, Monique Konings, Marjon van Winkelhof
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 394
City: Newcastle upon Tyne
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I
Introduction to Part I – (Co-)Creating Meaning-Focused Materials
1. What Should Meaning-Focused Mean? • Brian Tomlinson
2. From Rules to Reasons and Other Tweaks: A Principled Approach to Adapting Coursebook Material • Danny Norrington-Davies
3. The Teacher’s Book: An Inviting and Meaningful Reading • Roberta Amendola
4. The Learner Knows Best: Involving Secondary Students in Topic and Materials Selection for Meaningful Classroom Activities • Isabella Seeger
5. Square Peg, Round Hole? Developing Meaning-Focused Materials for Form-Focused Courses in Teacher Education • Marina Bouckaert
Part II
Introduction to Part II – Materials as Meaningful Interventions
6. Producing a Meaning-Focused ESP Course • Tony Waterman
7. Using Linked Skills Tasks to Promote L2 Oral Fluency • Sakae Onoda
8. Interplay between Data-Driven Learning and the Text- Driven Approach in the Development of Meaning-Focused Materials • Majid Elahi Shirvan
9. Teaching in Greenland: An Attempt to Encourage Diversity • Anne-Mette Korczynski
10. Seeding Task-Based Interactive Language Learning through Meaning-Focused Materials among South African Graduate Students • L. Junia Ngoepe
Part III
Introduction to Part III – Creating Meaning through Digital Materials and Multimedia
11. Digitalised Materials for Young Foreign Language Learners on the Interactive Website PALM • Claudia Mewald and Sabine Wallner
12. Creating Meaning-Focused Materials for a TELL Course: An Example from India • Sujata Bhonsale, Jennifer Thomas, Ashwin Nagappa and Ling Hsiao
13. Learners’ Views about Meaning-Focused Reading: A Case Study of the Reading Section “Catching a Glimpse” • Alessandra Belletti Figueira Mülling
14. Transform Your Storytelling! Poetry and Storytelling as an Effective Way of Teaching Culture and Language • Rosa-Maria Cives-Enriquez
15. Reading Picture Books: A Resource for Meaning-Focused Language Learning Materials in Primary School • Julia Reckermann
Part IV
Introduction to Part IV – Critical Perspectives on Meaning-Focused Materials
16. Developing/Adapting Meaning-focused Language Materials: An Emerging Critical-Constructivist Framework • Amir Hossein Sarkeshikian
17. Re-imaging Global Content and Pedagogy for Intermediate Spanish L2 Language Courses • Nausica Marcos Miguel and Robert Hershberger
18. Bringing EAP Material to Life: Context of Application and Pedagogical Relevance – An Experiment and a Case Study • Iffat Subhani
19. Meaning-Focused Activities as Incorporated in Actual Communication: Evaluation of Formal ESL Teaching and Assessment Materials • Asma Aftab
20. Language Diversity and Language Testing • Claudia Saraceni
List of Contributors
