Developing Materials for Language Teaching - Softcover

"In this book we offer the informed and reflective practitioner as the ideal agent for mediating between the practice and theory of language teaching. Some of the contributors might be labelled teachers, some materials developers, some applied linguists, some teacher trainers and some publishers, but all of them share four things in common: they have all had experience as teachers of a second or foreign language, they have all contributed to the development of second language materials, they have are all well informed about developments in linguistic and psycholinguistic theory and they all have respect for the teacher as the person with the power to decide what actually happens in the classroom." - Brian Tomlinson

Brian Tomlinson is a highly regarded author who has published with Penguin, Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Longman, and Heinemann. He has worked at Bell College and at universities in Cambridge, Kobe and Singapore. He has also worked in ELT in Nigeria and Zambia. He is now Reader at Leeds Metropolitan University.