English language teaching textbooks : content, consumption, production /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Harwood, Nigel (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:	English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers. English language > Textbooks for foreign speakers. Educational technology. Teaching > Aids and devices.

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Studies of textbook context
All Middle class now? Evolving representations of the working class in the neoliberal era: the case of ELT textbooks / John Gray and David Block
Reading comprehension questions: the distribution of different types in global EFL textbooks / Diana Freeman
Teaching English reading: what's included in the textbooks of pre-service general education teachers? / Quentin Dixon
Part 2. Studies of textbook consumption
Teachers' conceptualization and use of the textbook on a medical English course / Ahlam Menkabu and Nigel Harwood
An experienced teacher's use of the textbook on an academic English course: a case study / Fotini Grammatosi and Nigel Harwood
Global textbooks in local contexts: an empirical investigatin of effectiveness / Gregory Hadley
Part 3. Studies of textbook production
Writing materials for publication: questions raised and lessons learned / Ivor Timmis
An interdisciplinary textbook project: charting the paths taken / Fredricka L. Stoller and Marin S. Robinson
Tensions between the old and the new in EAP textbook revision: a tale of two projects / Christine B. Feak and John M. Swales
Chaosmos: spontaneity and order in the materials design process / Jill Hadfield.