奈杰尔·哈伍德编著的《英语语言教学材料：理论与实践》系统阐释了英语语言教学材料的研发与设计，讲解全面、清晰、实用、辅以丰富的范例，实践指导性强。对语言教学领域的研究生、教师、教师培训者及研究者具有很高的参考价值。

尽管教材在教学中的作用非常重要，但教材研究一直是语言教学研究领域的弱项，《英语语言教学材料：理论与实践》主编奈杰尔·哈伍德邀请多位在英语教学研究和教材开发领域均具有丰富经验的资深专家，系统阐释了英语语言教学材料的研发与设计。

全书共17章，分为4个部分。一、二部分共5章，是对教学材料设计理论与原则的探讨，阐述了教材研发与设计中的主要问题、二语习得研究对语言教学材料的启示、教材设计和任务设计中的技术应用、有效教材设计的基本原理，以及如何在批判性教学理论指导下进行教材设计。三、四部分共12章，针对英语各种课程教学材料的设计实践，进行了深入、详细的讲解，既包括阅读、写作、听力、口语等语言技能类教材的开发设计，也涵盖了围产医学学术写作、护理专业英语、商务会谈、社区成人英语等专门用途英语教学材料的研发设计。讲解全面、清晰、实用、辅以丰富的范例，实践指导性强。

《英语语言教学材料：理论与实践》对语言教学领域的研究生、教师、教师培训者及研究者具有很高的参考价值。

总序

Preface

PART A:INTRODUCTION

 1 Issues in materials development and design

PART B:PERSPECTIVES ON MATERIALS

 2 Second language acquisition research and language-teaching materials

 3 The theory and practice of technology in materials development and task design

 4 Principles of effective materials development

 5 Critical praxis as materials development: Responding to military recruitment on a US campus

PART C:MATERIALS FOR THE LANGUAGE SYLLABUS

 6 A principled approach to content-based materials development for reading

 7 A genre-based approach to developing materials for writing

 8 Listening as process: Learning activities for self-appraisal and self-regulation

 9 Materials to develop the speaking skill

 10 Developing materials for discipline-specific vocabulary and phrases in academic seminars

PART D:MATERIALS FOR SPECIFIC AND ACADEMIC PURPOSES

 11 Materials for university essay writing

 12 Writing for publication: Corpus-informed materials for postdoctoral fellows in perinatology

 13 Research-based materials to demystify academic citation for postgraduates

 14 Making professional academic writing practices visible: Designing research-based heuristics to support English-medium text production

 15 English for nursing: Developing discipline-specific materials

 16 Using textbook and real-life data to teach turn taking in business meetings

 17 Designing materials for community-based adult ESL programs

Author index

Subject Index