Question:
Submitted by Pinar Yilmaz, Bilkent University, Turkey
Dear Dr. Richards,
What procedures do you recommend in evaluating textbooks?
Dr. Richards responds:
Please see the chapter on textbooks in my book Key Issues in Language Teaching.
Submitted by Pinar Yilmaz, Bilkent University, Turkey
Dear Dr. Richards,
What procedures do you recommend in evaluating textbooks?
Please see the chapter on textbooks in my book Key Issues in Language Teaching.
Submitted by Melody G. Belisario, Philippines
How to survey the linguistic profile of students who speak English as their second language?
Here is an example from Australia:
Submitted by Abdu, Yemen
What are the virtues and the weaknesses of the commercially-produced materials as opposed to the localized teacher-made materials?
Commercial materials are usually intended for a diverse audience of teachers and learners, so will often not be directly applicable to a local context and may need to be adapted and localized. Teacher-made materials have the advantage of reflecting the specific context and the needs of learners in that context. An advantage of commercial materials is that they are usually prepared by experts and carefully edited and field tested before publication. With teacher-made materials there is no guarantee that the quality will match those of commercial textbooks, since teachers may not have had any training in materials’ preparation.
Towards a Pedagogy of Grammar Instruction by Jack C Richards and Randi Reppen, was published in RELC Journal 2014, 45, 5-25.
The third edition of Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching was published in March 2014 by Cambridge University Press..