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Kaygisiz, Çagri – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2019
Language teaching is a skill-based teaching aiming at the development of language skills and teaching tools are one of the important components of the teaching process in terms of the elements that will enable to increase the knowledge and experience related to the skill intended to be developed as the input source. Therefore, teaching tools…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Reading Materials, Material Development, Instructional Materials
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Dawn Atkinson; Stacey Corbitt – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Despite coverage of materials development principles in the applied linguistics literature, principled production of open textbooks has not received attention. To address this gap and demonstrate the interdisciplinary potential of materials development research, the authors drew upon concurrent verbalization and interview data they collected while…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
Andrzej Cirocki, Editor; Raichle Farrelly, Editor; Taylor Sapp, Editor – Springer, 2024
This volume features current, innovative, and effective ways of developing instructional materials for diverse English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts. It is divided into four sections, each featuring pedagogical materials designed for specific groups of learners. The sections focus on materials for general English, ESP and EAP, CLIL, and ELT…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials, Material Development
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Sugarman, Julie; Fee, Molly; Donovan, Anne – Language Teaching, 2015
The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a private, nonprofit organization with over 50 years' experience in the application of research on language and culture to educational and societal concerns. CAL carries out its mission to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture by engaging in a variety of projects in…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Adult Education
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Barjesteh, Hamed; Birjandi, Parviz; Maftoon, Parviz – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study is a report on the design, development, and validation of a model within the main tenets of critical pedagogy (CP) with a hope to implement in education in general and applied linguistics in particular. To develop a transformative L2 materials preparation (TLMP) model, the researchers drew on Crawford's (1978) principles of CP as a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Language Planning, Material Development
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Stoller, Fredricka L.; Robinson, Marin S. – English for Specific Purposes, 2013
This article highlights aspects of an interdisciplinary (chemistry-applied linguistics) English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course- and materials-development project. The project was aimed at raising genre awareness among chemistry students and faculty, in addition to improving students' disciplinary reading and writing. As part of the project,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Applied Linguistics, Journal Articles, Audiences
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Alkhaldi, Ali Ata – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2010
Published language materials are widely used around the world, but many Foreign Language (FL) and/or Second Language (SL) learners still fail to develop their communicative competence satisfactorily and they are still not happy with their language materials. Materials design has recently been characterized by two important developments: first,…
Descriptors: Instructional Material Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Material Development, English (Second Language)
Sert, Olcay; Seedhouse, Paul – Online Submission, 2011
This short, introductory paper presents an up-to-date account of works within the field of Applied Linguistics which have been influenced by a Conversation Analytic paradigm. The article reviews recent studies in classroom interaction, materials development, proficiency assessment and language teacher education. We believe that the publication of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication
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Penfield, Susan D.; Tucker, Benjamin V. – Language and Education, 2011
This paper explores the distance between documenting and revitalizing endangered languages and indicates critical points at which applied linguistics can play a role. We look at language documentation, language revitalization and their relationship. We then provide some examples from our own work. We see the lack of applied linguistics as a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Role
Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2012
The Language Resource Centers (LRC) program provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish, strengthen, and operate resource centers that serve to improve the nation's capacity to teach and learn foreign languages. Eligible applicants are institutions of higher education. Duration of the grant is four years. Center activities…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers
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Lim, Jason Miin-Hwa – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
As university students are frequently given the tasks of writing research reports to fulfil their respective programme requirements, teaching novice writers to present the results of their reports understandably constitutes an essential component of English lessons at tertiary level. While past research has shown that results are consistently…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Language Styles, Writing Research, Research Methodology
Richards, Jack C. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2006
In the field of applied linguistics the activities involved in developing instructional materials and those working in second language research and the more theoretical areas of applied linguistics are often seen to have little connection. This paper is an exploration of some of the kinds of interaction that are possible between research, theory…
Descriptors: Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Instructional Materials, Material Development
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Ebneter, Theodor – NALLD Journal, 1975
Reports on the lab's activities as a center for the development of university language lab courses and for research into contemporary oral colloquial French, a part of the applied linguistics research area, and a center for the development of a language lab grammar for Zurich German. (RM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Language Programs, Curriculum Design, French
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Starosta, Stanley – Language Learning, 1976
Compares the theories of Chomsky and Fillmore. By representing "case" as a feature of lexical items, the deep/surface distinction can be eliminated, and the resulting "lexicase" framework looks promising as a basis for the design of language teaching materials. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Case (Grammar), Deep Structure, Language Instruction
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Valdman, Albert – Modern Language Journal, 1975
This article deals with the role in the preparation of foreign language teaching materials of error analysis and of the selection and ordering of linguistic features to be learned. The value for language teaching of contrastive analysis at the morphosyntactic and phonological levels is discussed. (CLK)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Patterns, Grading
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