Description: Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL) is a multifaceted academic discipline requiring training in linguistics, language acquisition, language pedagogy, methodology, materials development, testing and research, curriculum and syllabus design, programme administration and cross-cultural communication. This series of advanced textbooks in TESOL comprises individual volumes addressing an identifiable subfield within TESOL in more depth than would be covered in an introductory textbook to the area as a whole. Each volume is designed for use alongside taught module-length topics on TESOL degrees. As a whole, the series provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject.
Brief description: Freda Mishan is Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Limerick
Review Quotes:
This volume provides a rich and comprehensive resource for academics and teacher-educators designing or teaching on this type of module... As a resource for lecturers it provides really good, challenging and thought-provoking study tasks, and a helpful checklist of topics to be covered and key issues to discuss. It would also provide a really useful resource for students as key reading. It fills the space between very practical handbooks for teachers on aspects of materials writing and more theoretical volumes on principles and processes of materials writing.
--Nick Andon, King's College London "ELT Journal "