Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teaching-learning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/ELT language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws on and is clearly linked to a single model presented in Nation and Macalister's Language Curriculum Design (www.routledge.com/9780415806060), giving the book a high degree of coherence. A short commentary by the editors after each case highlights features of note and/or issues arising from it. This is a versatile text, designed to work as a companion to Language Curriculum Design (adding meaning and depth to the model presented there by relating it to a range of applications), as a stand-alone text, or as a resource for language teacher trainees, teacher educators, practicing teachers, program administrators, and materials writers in the field.
Preface
Introduction
Paul Nation and John Macalister
A survival language learning syllabus for foreign travel
Paul Nation and David Crabbe
Design meeting context: A general English course for Burmese adults
Katie Julian and Derek Foster
Designing English language courses for Omani students
Angela Joe
My ideal vocabulary teaching course
Paul Nation
Opening the door to international communication: Peruvian officials and APEC
Susan Smith
Helping skilled migrants into employment: The workplace communication program
Nicky Riddiford
The blended language learning course in Taiwan: Issues & challenges of instructional design
Gi-Zen Liu
Designing the assessment of a university ESOL course
John Read and Lizzy Roe
Refreshing a writing course: The role of evaluation
John Macalister
Localizing Spanish in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership: Develoopiing and using a 'teachable' curriculum
Donald Freeman, Maria Coolican and Kathleen Graves
Learning to teach Spanish: Identifying, inducting, and supporting apprentice teachers in the Ann Arbor Languages Partnership
Donald Freeman, Maria Coolican and Kathleen Graves
Negotiated syllabuses: Do you want to?
Andrew Boon
Enhancing consumerist literacy practices in an urbanizing community
Moses Samuel and Saratha Sithamparam
The teacher as intermediary between national curriculum and classroom
Kevin Parent
Developing a blogwriting program at a Japanese university
Patrick Foss
