New Approaches to Materials Development for Language Learning

Brian Tomlinson

Conference Presentation: Localising the Global: Matching Materials to the Local Context of Learning

Brian Tomlinson is Reader in Language Learning and Teaching at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he is Head of the Post-Graduate, Research and Consultancy Unit. He has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer, curriculum developer and university lecturer in Japan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Singapore, the UK, Vanuatu and Zambia and has given presentations in over forty countries. He is the Founder and President of MATSDA (the Materials Development Association) and has published many articles and books (e.g. (with Rod Bolitho) Discover English (Macmillan), Materials Development in Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press), Developing Materials for Language Teaching (Continuum Press), (with Hitomi Masuhara) Developing Language Course Materials (RELC) and Openings (Penguin). He is currently working on Language Acquisition and Development: Studies of Learners of First and Second Languages for Continuum Press and a series of web readers (World Wide Web Readers) which he is editing with Alan Maley for e-Books World.

B.Tomlinson@lmu.ac.uk

For more information, contact:
Olwyn Alexander
School of Management and Languages
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS,
0131 451 8189 | O.Alexander@hw.ac.uk

updated 26 November 2004