The first of a two-part series, by Scott Thornbury Learning linguistic items is not a linear process - learners do not master one item and then move on to another. In fact, the learning curve for ...
Recently there has been a focus on dealing with ‘emergent language’, rather than following a syllabus. But does this mean that coursebooks are irrelevant? Surely coursebooks are ultimately a...
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a recording of Rachael Roberts' session at IATEFL 2013
Recently there has been a focus on dealing with 'emergent language', rather than following a syllabus. But does this mean that coursebooks are irrelevant? Surely coursebooks are ultimately a collec...
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a teaser for Rachael Roberts' session at IATEFL 2013
In last Wednesday’s #eltchat one of the topics discussed was ‘Is using the coursebook a bad thing?’ A topic I was eager to discuss not just because I suggested it but because since becoming active ...
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#eltchat moderator, teacher, trainer and materials writer Shaun Wilden comments on the coursebook debate following an #eltchat session on using coursebooks
Given that last time I tried to do this, it seemed to take me an entire evening to write - and probably took you even longer to actually read through - I've decided that maybe the best way forward ...
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a close and personal look at using coursebooks in the classroom
There is a lot written about the role of the teacher in ELT and the role of the learner. We use words like ‘facilitator’ and ‘coach’ to describe the teacher, and ‘risk-taker’ and ‘co-worker’ are am...
Today is the day - the day of the teach-off. What teach-off, you ask? Following the much-talked and much-blogged about Dogme debate that ensued after the IH DOS conference in January, my DOS public...
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This is the first post in a series of posts about a dogme vs coursebook challenge undertaken by the blog writer Chia Suan Chong and a colleague at IH London in 2012. The series as a whole raises a lot of interesting questions and issues.
After six months' blogging (28 posts, 870 comments) I thought it might be timely to hand over the reins to someone else for a change. And who better than my blogging 'mentor', the irrepressible ...
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a post from 2010 but still very current - as always on Scott Thornbury's A to Z - the comments are well worth reading through for a snapshot of the debate at the time
In the last post I argued that coursebooks may have something to offer independent learners and their language coaches (that's you). This runs counter to a common viewpoint in ELT that coursebooks stifle independent ...
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not completely on topic but an interesting angle anyway - using CBs to promote autonomy from Daniel Barber
The ELT Journal debate at IATEFL Liverpool was a lively and well-attended affair. Thanks to the British Council, you can see the whole event online on the IATEFL Liverpool website. Here, Catherine ...
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Catherine Walters offers a summary of the other side of the coursebook debate from IATEFL Liverpool 2013 - arguing that materials have improved greatly and do help support both learning and teaching
In the debate sponsored by the ELT Journal at this week’s IATEFL Conference in Liverpool, I proposed the motion that published course materials do not reflect the lives nor the needs of the learner...
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and the debate continues ... as always the conversation in the comments as interesting as the post itself
International House Directors of Studies Conference 2013. This talk will take a look at how textbooks are put together. It will also look at the textbook's r...
Course books. Manna from Heaven or spawn of the Devil? Well, during the #eltchat discussion at 12.00pm on Wednesday 11 June 2011, we managed to firmly establish, via a "fast and furious" (as descri...
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a contribution to the debate on the pros and cons of coursebooks from #eltchat
Well, you've got Phil Wade to blame - or thank, I guess, depending on your point of view - for what follows. Phil has been a keen contributor to this blog so far and via Twitter suggested that I de...
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Hugh Dellar's response to Chia Suan Chong's dogme teach-off posts (also featured here)
Now the series of posts I want to move on to next may well come as a bit of a surprise to many of you out there, given the fact that I devoted a significant amount of my early energies on this blog...
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Hugh Dellar, co-author of the Innovations and Outcomes series for Cengage talking about using coursebooks in the classroom. Articulate and thought-provoking as always.
Recently I observed a teacher in class who was going to be piloting some material I’d written. The lesson was fascinating. She’d copied and cut up parts of the workbook, written out sentences from ...
It’s ten years now, since Scott Thornbury wrote his brilliant, funny, and provocative ‘Dogma’ piece in IATEFL Issues, as it then was. And it WAS a brilliant piece, only one page long, capturing a l...
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another classic from the 2010 debate on coursebooks - you need a long cofffee break, or maybe even a whole Sunday morning, to get through the comments here which kept coming in months after the original post was published
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Interesting article, fundamentally about syllabus design.