Elt Materials Development Syllabus - Uc.pdf

5121: ELT Materials Development and Evaluation Syllabus

HANOI UNIVERSITY TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC HÀ NỘI

1. Course Objectives and Outcomes This course aims at providing master students at HANU with opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills in the effective design and production of ELT materials so that the materials are appropriate for the proficiency levels and educational contexts of students whom they will be teaching in their institutions. By the end of the course the students will be able to ● be aware of the principles and core issues in materials design; ● be able to apply the general framework to construct a checklist to evaluate the English course books used in their institutions; and ● adapt their current materials into their own teaching contexts. ● write a set of general aims and specific objectives for the development and implementation of selected tasks in language learning. ● organize their own materials development and evaluation processes. ● be able to study further the area of materials development and evaluation for ELT. 2. Books and Materials Course book: Mishan, F. & Timmis, I. (2015). Materials Development for TESOL. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Reference materials: 1. McDonough, J., Shaw, C., & Masuhara, H. (2013). Materials and methods in ELT. John Wiley & Sons. 2. Tomlinson, B. (Ed.). (2011). Materials development in language teaching. Cambridge University Press. 3. Tomlinson, B. (2012). Materials development for language learning and teaching. Language Teaching, 45(02), 143-179. doi:10.1017/s0261444811000528. 4. Maley, A. (2016). Principles and Procedures in Materials Development. In Issues in Materials Development (pp. 11-41). Rotterdam: Sense. 5. Macalister, J. (2016). Adapting and Adopting Materials. In Issues in Materials Development (pp. 5764). Rotterdam: Sense. 6. Allwright, R.L. (1981). What do we want teaching materials for? ELTJ. 36/1. 7. Barnard, R., & Randall, M. (1995). Evaluating course materials: A contrastive study in text book trialling. System, 23(3), 337-346. 8. Clarke, D.F. (1989). Materials adaptation: Why leave it all to the teacher? ELTJ. 43/2. Oxford. 9. Ellis, R. (1997). The empirical evaluation of language teaching materials. ELT journal, 51(1), 36-42. 10. Grant, N. (1987). Making the most of your textbook. Longman. 11. Harwood, N. (2010). English Language Teaching Materials: theory and practice. Cambridge: CUP. 12. Hewings, M. (1991). The interpretation of illustrations in ELT materials. ELTJ. 45/3.Oxford. 13. Johnson, K. (2003). Designing Language Teaching Tasks. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 14. Leach, R. and Deason, P. (1992). Making, using and adapting materials. Cambridge: National Extension College.

15. Marczak, M. (2013). Selecting and E-(text) book: Evaluation criteria. Teaching English with Technology, (1), 29-41. 16. McGrath, I. (2002) Materials evaluation and design for language teaching. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. 17. Miekley, J. (2005). ESL textbook evaluation checklist. The Reading Matrix, 5(2). 18. Mukundan, J., Nimehchisalem, V., & Hajimohammadi, R. (2011). Developing an English language textbook evaluation checklist: A focus group study. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 1(12), 100-105. 19. Sheldon, L. (1988). Evaluating ELT textbooks and materials. ELTJ. 42/4. 20. Stein, Carol Stuen, Douglas Carnine, Roger M. Long, M. (2001). Textbook evaluation and adoption. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 17(1), 5-23. 21. Tomlinson, B. (2012). Materials development for language learning and teaching. Language Teaching, 45(02), 143-179. Retrieved from http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/servlet/file/store7/item6925339/version1/Materials%20developme%20for %20language%20learning.pdf 22. Tsiplakides, I. (2011). Selecting an English Coursebook: Theory and Practice. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 1(7), 758-764. 23. Williams, D. (1983). Developing criteria for textbook evaluation. ELT journal, 37(3), 251-255.

3. Proposed Class Time Schedule  

Once a week 03 hours / session

4. Assessment ●

Attendance and participation (10%): Attend class regularly (absence allowance: 2 sessions); participate in class activities & discussions; prepare assigned readings & complete homework assignments prior to class.

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Group presentations/ journals on weekly topics (30%): Deliver a pair/group presentation on weekly topics and selected issues.

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Group written assignments on material development and task design for the teaching of the selected skills (60%): Collaboratively write a written assignment of 1,500 words describing: (1) the principles applied in the process of the material development & (2) the tasks designed for the teaching of the selected skills.

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Deadline for assignment: 02 weeks after the last session.

5. In-class Activities

6. Instructor

Lectures

Phạm Tiến Hùng (Master of Science in Education)

Group discussions and presentations

Email: [email protected]

Self-study

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7. Online resource http://bit.ly/5121elt 8. Schedule

Week

Topics

Materials

Notes

1

Introduction

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)  Tomlinson (2011), (2012)  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)

2

Principled materials development

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)  Maley (2016)

3

Materials, methods and contexts

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)  Tomlinson (2012)

4

Materials evaluation and adaptation

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5

Self-study

 Review relevant materials in http://bit.ly/5121elt

6

Reconceptualizing materials for technological environment

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)

7

Materials to develop reading and listening skills

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)

8

Materials to develop speaking and writing skills

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)

9

Materials for vocabulary and grammar

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)

10

Self-study

 Review relevant materials in http://bit.ly/5121elt

11

Students’ production and presentation of L / S / R / W / V / G materials

Ss’ presentations: 30% of total score

12

Materials design: from process to  Mishan & Timmis (2015) product  Tomlinson (2012) Conclusion

Final assignment to be submitted 02 weeks later: 60%

Mishan & Timmis (2015) Tomlinson (2011) McDonough & Masuhara (2013) Macalister (2016)

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No class

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