Materials Development and Teacher Education: The Roles of Materials in Teacher Learning and Development
About this ebook
This book examines how pre-service and in-service teachers engage with teaching materials and the different processes implicated in materials development, such as their evaluation, adaptation, design and use. The chapters, written by well-known experts in the field as well as teacher educators, document the role of materials in the overall process of learning to teach English, including how teachers develop teaching materials; how the instruction in teaching materials varies across different international contexts; and how the process of materials development becomes a site of teacher learning and development instead of only a resource production process. Together the chapters document the affordances and challenges of providing materials development instruction in teacher education, as well as how engaging student-teachers in materials development supports the ongoing formation of their teacher identities, pedagogical agency and pedagogical content knowledge.
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About the author
Luis Carabantes is a Senior Lecturer in Academic and Professional Communication at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He has taught English as a Foreign Language in primary, secondary and higher education institutions in Chile and worked as a teacher educator in Chile and in the UK. He has written in-house and published materials, and researches teacher education and materials development.
Amos Paran is Professor Emeritus of TESOL at the UCL Institute of Education, UK. He has a background as a secondary EFL teacher and in writing supplementary skills books, coursebooks and exam practice materials for a range of contexts and publishers. He has published academic work on topics including using literature in language teaching, distance learning, and reading in an L2.
