Critical Perspectives on Language Teaching Materials [Paperback]

This Critical Perspectives on Language Teaching Materials  brings together a collection of critical voices on the subject of language teaching materials for use in English, French, Spanish, German and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms.1. Introduction; John Gray 2. Telling Tales: Changing Discourses of Identity in the 'Global' UK-published English Language Coursebook; John Kullman 3. LGBT Invisibility and Heteronormativity in ELT Materials; John Gray 4. The 'Neoliberal Citizen': Resemiotizing Globalized Identities in EAP Materials; Christian W. Chun 5. 'This Activity is Far From Being a Pause for Reflection': An Exploration of ELT Authors', Editors', Teachers' and Learners' Approaches to Critical Thinking; Denise Santos 6. Critically Evaluating Materials for CLIL: Practitioners' Practices and Perspectives; Tom Morton 7. Communicating Constructions of Frenchness through Language Coursebooks: A Comparison; Simon Coffey 8. Spanish Imagined: Political and Subjective Approaches to Language Textbooks; Cristina Ros i Sol? 9. Motivation, Authenticity and Challenge in German Textbooks for Key Stage 3; Nick Andon and Ursula Wingate 10. Resisting Coursebooks; Scott Thornbury

'There have been monographs and edited collections on language teaching material over the years, but none have managed to do what this book does cover the basics of the field while moving debate on further in a variety of different areas. Thus within the covers of this collection, magnificently edited by John Gray, we find not only general information about language teaching materials, but also detailed attention to how such materials are cultural artefacts, that is how they are human-produced objects which communicate information about the culture within which they are embedded and from which they emerge, as well as their creators. A key factor here is the move by contributors to an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching materials, leavinl³Z