The work of Brian Abbs and Ingrid Freebairn:survey review  

Oleh:

Rixon, Shelagh ; Smith, Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 66 no. 3 (Jul. 2012), page 383-393.
Topik: work of Brian Abbs; ELT; Ingrid Freebairn
Fulltext: 2012.3. 383-393.pdf (194.53KB)

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The idea for this ‘Survey Review with a difference’ stems from a growing recognition that our profession has a history and particular stories worth telling (Howatt with Widdowson 2004; Smith 2004; Hunter and Smith 2012). It chimes also with the coming of age ofELTtextbook research, which has been taken in interesting new directions (beyond simply textbook evaluation) by analysts including Littlejohn (1998), Kullman (2003), Waters (2009), Gray (2010), Harwood (2010), and Tomlinson and Masuhara (2010). This Survey Review was also stimulated by a desire to see how materials collected together over the last ten years in the Warwick ELT Archive (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/elt_archive) could be mined in the service of useful history. The article celebrates the achievements of Brian Abbs and Ingrid Freebairn, two of the most signi?cant ELTcoursebook authors of the last 50 years. It focuses, in particular, on their (1975+) Strategies series. The article takes account of some of the criticisms that have been made of UK ELT coursebooks in general, while exploring a research approach which places value on the contributions of coursebook writers to ELT history.

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