Designing Language Courses: A Guide for Teachers

I bought this book as a requirement for my Masters Program...TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and I was expecting to find another uninteresting textbook. The book was great! This book is truly designed with the teacher in mind. The information was clear, easy to understand, and helpful. The book stresses the importance of how teachers need to take a students' needs into consideration in order to get the most out of your curriculum! If you are a student in a teacher preparation program...don't throw, give, or sell this book. It would be wise to keep this in your reference library!

This has been an excellent book for learning how to design language courses. It shows the different factors involved, and then how to choose a text book and use it to develop a syllabus and materials for the whole course. It is definitely a big picture book, and does not talk much about lesson design. It is very well organized, and has study questions that help you to learn to practically use the material.

This textbook was required for one of my graduate level courses. Even though the reading was assigned, I found this book to be very easy to read, very informative, and full of fresh ways at looking at old concepts.I think any teacher who is planning on teaching an ESL course of any type should use this book as reference. It's very easy to follow and full of practical advice.

This is a really good book, of course I needed it for a class and my school totally was overcharging for the book. Why? There are not a lot of pages. Anyway, the book gives pointers on how to create proper and efficient lesson for adult learners of English. It appears to be helpful so far with lesson planning and advice on teaching adults English.

This is a fabulous book for teachers needing guidance on designing a curriculum. The chapters are clearly organized by topic. Each of these topics reflects necessary elements in a curriculum. This book is essential for teachers starting a career as an ESL/EFL teacher, especially when joining a school or program without a set curriculum.

I purchased this book for a course I'm taking for my first semester of graduate studies.I received it on time and the condition was great. Thankful for the book arriving before my classes started.

This book was required for my teaching course and it was well-written and accessible.

Very Nice book! Clear to understando a lot of examples.

I purchased the book to have solid background and understanding of curriculum design. However, I was in for a disappointment. The book seems to be more about the narratives and experiences of the different teachers and their justifications for selecting and designing curricula in a certain way. What I expected to see more of was the theoretical foundations and references to other works. In short, if you are working on a thesis or dissertation and looking for definitions then this book is not for you. Those who work within the EFL/ ESL/ TESOL field may benefit from other books such as Nation, I.S.P., & Macalister, J. (2010). Language curriculum design.

Prompt service and received exactly what I was looking for.

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