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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Selecting coursebooks - the essentials

 1 Approaches to evaluation

 2 Deciding on a checklist

 3 Selecting the best available coursebook

 4 Specifying aims and analysing the learning/teaching situation

 5 The role of coursebooks

Chapter 2 Analysing and evaluating coursebooks: a rationale and some guidelines

 1 Selecting coursebooks

 2 Uses of coursebooks

 3 What the coursebooks claim

 4 Types of materials evaluation

 5 Purposes of materials evaluation

 6 Evaluating for potential and evaluating for suitability

 7 Guidelines for evaluation

 8 The guidelines in practice: a case study

Chapter 3 The coursebook package

 1 The make-up of the coursebook package

 2 The organization of coursebooks

Chapter 4 Thelanguage content

 1 Language form and language use

 2 Grammar

 3 Evaluating the grammar content: a case study

 4 Vocabulary

 5 Phonology

 6 Integration of pronunciation teaching with other work

 7 Discourse

 8 Style and appropriacy

 9 Varieties of English

Chapter 5 Selection and grading

 1 The syllabus base

 2 Content-based syllabuses

 3 Structural and functional syllabuses

 4 Situational and topic-based syllabuses

 5 Grading: sequencing and staging

 6 Case study: selection and grading

Chapter 6 Skills

 1 The four sk川s in general coursebooks

 2 Listening

 3 Speaking

 4 Reading

 5 Writing

 6 Specialized books for skills development

 7 Readers

Chapter 7 Topic, subject content and social values

 1 Topic and subject content

 2 Social and cultural values

 3 Case study: subject content and values in coursebooks

Chapter 8 Methodology

 1 Learner needs

 2 Guiding prinaples

 3 Procedures for learning and teaching

 4 The student's role

 5 Studysk川s

Chapter 9 Teachers' books

 1 The teacher's role

 2 Teachers' books

Chapter 10 Communicative coursebooks

 1 Aims of communicative language teaching

 2 Communicative coursebooks: design and content

 3 The element of unpredictability: case study

 4 Coursebook language and real-life language use

 5 The organization of conversation

 6 Style and appropriacy

Chapter 11 ESP materials

 1 Characteristics of ESP materials

 2 Student and teacher roles

 3 Design and methodology

Chapter 12 Adapting published materials

 1 Why adapt coursebooks?

 2 When to adapt

 3 Supplementing and replacing material

 4 A new role for the coursebook: inspiration and creativity

 5 Some examples of adapting materials

 6 Adapting outdated coursebooks

Appendix Specifying aims and analysing the learning/teaching situation

References

Index