5121: ELT Materials Development and Evaluation HANOI UNIVERSITY

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Syllabus

1. Course Objectives and Outcomes

This course aims at providing master students at HANU with opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills
in the effective design and production of ELT materials so that the materials are appropriate for the
proficiency levels and educational contexts of students whom they will be teaching in their institutions.

By the end of the course the students will be able to

● be aware of the principles and core issues in materials design;
● be able to apply the general framework to construct a checklist to evaluate the English course books
used in their institutions; and
● adapt their current materials into their own teaching contexts.
● write a set of general aims and specific objectives for the development and implementation of
selected tasks in language learning.
● organize their own materials development and evaluation processes.
● be able to study further the area of materials development and evaluation for ELT.

2. Books and Materials

Course book:
Mishan, F. & Timmis, I. (2015). Materials Development for TESOL. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Reference materials:
1. McDonough, J., Shaw, C., & Masuhara, H. (2013). Materials and methods in ELT. John Wiley &
Sons.
2. Tomlinson, B. (Ed.). (2011). Materials development in language teaching. Cambridge University
Press.
3. Tomlinson, B. (2012). Materials development for language learning and teaching. Language
Teaching, 45(02), 143-179. doi:10.1017/s0261444811000528.
4. Maley, A. (2016). Principles and Procedures in Materials Development. In Issues in Materials
Development (pp. 11-41). Rotterdam: Sense.
5. Macalister, J. (2016). Adapting and Adopting Materials. In Issues in Materials Development (pp. 57-
64). Rotterdam: Sense.
6. Allwright, R.L. (1981). What do we want teaching materials for? ELTJ. 36/1.
7. Barnard, R., & Randall, M. (1995). Evaluating course materials: A contrastive study in text book
trialling. System, 23(3), 337-346.
8. Clarke, D.F. (1989). Materials adaptation: Why leave it all to the teacher? ELTJ. 43/2. Oxford.
9. Ellis, R. (1997). The empirical evaluation of language teaching materials. ELT journal, 51(1), 36-42.
10. Grant, N. (1987). Making the most of your textbook. Longman.
11. Harwood, N. (2010). English Language Teaching Materials: theory and practice. Cambridge: CUP.
12. Hewings, M. (1991). The interpretation of illustrations in ELT materials. ELTJ. 45/3.Oxford.
13. Johnson, K. (2003). Designing Language Teaching Tasks. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
14. Leach, R. and Deason, P. (1992). Making, using and adapting materials. Cambridge: National
Extension College.
 15. Marczak, M. (2013). Selecting and E-(text) book: Evaluation criteria. Teaching English with
Technology, (1), 29-41.
16. McGrath, I. (2002) Materials evaluation and design for language teaching. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press Ltd.
17. Miekley, J. (2005). ESL textbook evaluation checklist. The Reading Matrix, 5(2).
18. Mukundan, J., Nimehchisalem, V., & Hajimohammadi, R. (2011). Developing an English language
textbook evaluation checklist: A focus group study. International Journal of Humanities and Social
Science, 1(12), 100-105.
19. Sheldon, L. (1988). Evaluating ELT textbooks and materials. ELTJ. 42/4.
20. Stein, Carol Stuen, Douglas Carnine, Roger M. Long, M. (2001). Textbook evaluation and adoption.
Reading & Writing Quarterly, 17(1), 5-23.
21. Tomlinson, B. (2012). Materials development for language learning and teaching. Language
Teaching, 45(02), 143-179. Retrieved from
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/servlet/file/store7/item6925339/version1/Materials%20developme%20for
%20language%20learning.pdf
22. Tsiplakides, I. (2011). Selecting an English Coursebook: Theory and Practice. Theory and Practice
in Language Studies, 1(7), 758-764.
23. Williams, D. (1983). Developing criteria for textbook evaluation. ELT journal, 37(3), 251-255.

3. Proposed Class Time Schedule

 Once a week
 03 hours / session

4. Assessment

● Attendance and participation (10%): Attend class regularly (absence allowance: 2 sessions);
participate in class activities & discussions; prepare assigned readings & complete homework
assignments prior to class.
● Group presentations/ journals on weekly topics (30%): Deliver a pair/group presentation on
weekly topics and selected issues.
● Group written assignments on material development and task design for the teaching of the
selected skills (60%): Collaboratively write a written assignment of 1,500 words describing: (1)
the principles applied in the process of the material development & (2) the tasks designed for the
teaching of the selected skills.
● Deadline for assignment: 02 weeks after the last session.

5. In-class Activities 6. Instructor

Lectures Phạm Tiến Hùng (Master of Science in Education)

Group discussions and presentations Email: hungpt@hanu.edu.vn
Self-study

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7. Online resource

http://bit.ly/5121elt

8. Schedule

Week Topics Materials Notes

 Mishan & Timmis (2015)
1 Introduction  Tomlinson (2011), (2012)
 McDonough & Masuhara (2013)
Principled materials  Mishan & Timmis (2015)
2
development  Maley (2016)
 Mishan & Timmis (2015)
3 Materials, methods and contexts
 Tomlinson (2012)
 Mishan & Timmis (2015)
Materials evaluation and  Tomlinson (2011)
4
adaptation  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)
 Macalister (2016)
 Review relevant materials in
5 Self-study No class
http://bit.ly/5121elt
Reconceptualizing materials for  Mishan & Timmis (2015)
6
technological environment  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)
Materials to develop reading and  Mishan & Timmis (2015)
7
listening skills  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)
Materials to develop speaking  Mishan & Timmis (2015)
8
and writing skills  McDonough & Masuhara (2013)
Materials for vocabulary and
9  Mishan & Timmis (2015)
grammar
 Review relevant materials in
10 Self-study No class
http://bit.ly/5121elt
Students’ production and
Ss’ presentations:
11 presentation of L / S / R / W / V /
30% of total score
G materials
Materials design: from process to Final assignment to
 Mishan & Timmis (2015)
12 product be submitted 02
 Tomlinson (2012) weeks later: 60%
Conclusion