posted by Juergen Kurtz, Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Germany
TESOLacademic.org is a knowledge dissemination site which links the work of TESOL scholars to teachers, teacher-trainers, teacher-trainees, decision-makers and other researchers. Edited by Huw Jarvis, it provides a global forum for people to talk about how their published research, or an aspect of it, impacts on language pedagogy. TESOLacademic.org only posts talks about research which have gone through the peer review process and this ‘guarantees’ the quality of the submissions.
In the following video webcast, Brian Tomlinson gives an interview about current trends and issues in TESOL materials development (click on image to view):
Compare with my nine-part series of posts on the role of the textbook in the EFL classroom if you like (please use search function in the upper right corner of my blog and type ‘role of the textbook’).
Foreign Language Education in the 21st Century 