Teaching materials and the roles of EFL/ESL teachers: practice and theory by Ian McGrath .
Teaching materials and the roles of EFL/ESL teachers: practice and theory by Ian McGrath .
May 13, 2021 Comments Off on Teaching materials and the roles of EFL/ESL teachers: practice and theory by Ian McGrath . Uncategorized Assignment-helpDegree: MA TESOL Module Name: Materials and Technology in Language Education Assignment title: An Evaluation of an English Learning Platform for Young Learners in a Chinese Primary School: The Case Study of NetEase Youdao ————————————————————————————————— Structure: 1. Introduction (~350 words) Introduce the platform (NetEase Youdao) and aims of this assignment (see example 1 attached) 2. Literature Review (~1800 words) Write about ideas and concepts and issues – studies about e.g. materials evaluation; TELL/MALL; materials for particular skills and for young learners; studies about these kinds of apps/resources in the Chinese context. (see example 2 attached) 3. Context (~500 words) Tell us about young learners in Chinese primary school – their ELL (Don’t use mobiles in the classroom or/and..) (see example 3 attached) 4. Evaluation (~2800 words) – Introduce your chosen checklist (can be adapted from other checklists) & tell us how you did the evaluation – Present and discuss your findings (you could organise according to the sections of your checklist) – Suggestions for improvement (see example 4 attached) 5. Conclusion (~350 words) Summarise the main arguments you are making ————————————————————————————————— The Core text for this module is: 1. Tomlinson, B. (2013) Developing Materials for Language Teaching (2nd ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic. Other key texts are: 2. Levy, M. & Stockwell, G. (2006) CALL Dimensions. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 3. Masuhara, H., Mishan, F. & Tomlinson, B. (2017) Practice and Theory for Materials Development in L2 Learning. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. 4. Materials and Methods in ELT by Jo McDonough; Christopher Shaw 5. Materials Development for TESOL by Freda Mishan; Ivor Timmis 6. Applied linguistics and materials development by Brian Tomlinson 7. Teaching materials and the roles of EFL/ESL teachers: practice and theory by Ian McGrath 8. Critical perspectives on language teaching materials by John Gray; SpringerLink (Online service) 9. Practice and theory for materials development in L2 learning by Hitomi Masuhara; Freda Mishan; Brian Tomlinson 10. Contemporary Computer-Assisted Language Learning by Michael Thomas; Hayo Reinders; Mark Warschauer