A collection of extracts from The British Council's Dunford Seminars from the first one in 1978 to the 16th in 1993
selected and edited by Gerry Abbott and Mike Beaumont with a foreword by Christopher Brumfit.
The editors believe the seminars to have fallen into 3 distinct phases and accordingly present the extracts in 3 sections:
section | page(s) |
---|
Beaumont, Mike & Abbott, Gerry . General Introduction: The meanings of 'Development' | pp.1-11 |
Beaumont, Mike. Developments in ELT 1978-84 | pp.12-21 |
Beaumont, Mike. The Communicative Curriculum | pp.22-23 |
Hawkey, Roger. Communicative needs profiles (1979) | pp.23-30 |
Moore, John. Materials production (1979) | pp.31-34 |
Maw, Janet. Approaches to curriculum design (1984) | pp.35-36 |
Phililips, Martin. Educational technology and curriculum renewal (1984) | pp.37-41 |
Beaumont, Mike. Communicative Methodology | pp.42-43 |
O'Neill, Robert. The three dualities, or 'new wine in old bottles' | pp.43-45 |
Watson, Barrie . Communication with traditional materials (1980) | pp.45-46 |
Breen, Mike. Why 'communicative'? | pp.46-48 |
Allwright, Dick. The relationship between teaching and learning (1984) | pp.48-51 |
Beaumont, Mike. Evaluation | pp.52-53 |
Seaton, Ian. Evaluating communicative performance (1979) | pp.53-57 |
Early, Patrick. The project approach: the human dimension (1981) | pp.58-59 |
Mountford, Alan. Extracts from consultancy reports (1981) | pp.59-66 |
Alderson, Charles. Evaluation of curricula and syllabuses (1984) | pp.67-71 |
Beaumont, Mike. Teacher training | pp.72-73 |
Participants, seminar. Some problems (1982) | pp.73-75 |
Strevens, Peter. Teacher training:nature and choices (1982) | pp.75-78 |
Tarner, Margaret and McNab, Andrew. A case study: corse design proposals for teaching training at the National Language Institute (INL), Angola (1982) | pp.78-82 |
Morrow, Keith. Teaching training courses: design and implementation (1983) | pp.82-89 |
Abbott, Gerry. ELT IN DEVELOPMENT 1985-92 | pp.92-100 |
Abbott, Gerry. Values and Costs | pp.100-101 |
Iredale, Roger. Investing in education (1992) | pp.101-106 |
Macbean, Alasdair. Economics and ELT (1992) | pp.106-116 |
Nuttall, Desmond. Evaluating the effects of ELT (1991) | pp.116-119 |
Turner, John. The value of ELT in development projects | pp.119-122 |
Thomas, Andy. Towards a synthesis of outcomes (1992) | pp.122-124 |
Abbott, Gerry. Administering ELT Aid | pp.125-125 |
Iredale, Roger. The English language as aid (1986) | pp.126-128 |
Board, Kathryn; Corcos, Robin; Holmes, John; Hunt, Oliver; Matthews, Stuart; Smith, Mike & Thomas, Andrew. ELT in a fisheries training project: work in progress (1985) | pp.128-130 |
Harrison, Myra & Munro, Hector. Project Administration (1989) | pp.131-133 |
St John, Maggie Jo and Clarke, David. Managing change in commuication skills projects (1991) | pp.134-137 |
Ahrens, Patricia. How a project can break down (1990) | pp.137-139 |
Abbott, Gerry. Appropriate Methodology | pp.140-141 |
Bowers, Roger & Widdowson, Henry. A debate on appropriate methodology (1986) | pp.141-145 |
Tonkyn, Alan. Overseas students'views on language learning in the UK (1990) | pp.145-149 |
Coleman, Hywel. Teaching large classes and training for sustainability | pp.149-159 |
Abbott, Gerry. ELT, Culture and Development | pp.161-161 |
Burke, John & Bolitho, Rod. Socio-economic roles and ELT (1991) | pp.162-164 |
Holes, Clive. Attitudes to language and language learning in Britain and the Arab world (1985) | pp.164-167 |
Phillipson, Robert. Linguistic Imperialism (1991) | pp.168-170 |
Bowers, Roger. ELT and development: projects and power (1991) | pp.170-178 |
Abbot, Gerry & Beaumont, Mike. Looking into the Distance (1993) | pp.180-184 |
Abbott, Gerry & Beaumont, Mike. Language Issues in Distance Education | pp.185-186 |
Turner, John. The Logisitics of distance language teaching | pp.186-193 |
Dodds, Tony. Distance learning for non-formal education | pp.193-198 |
Saddler-Smith, Eugene. Cognitive styles and the design of instructional materials | pp.198-207 |
Walsh, Gillian. The practicalities of running a distance learning programme | pp.208-212 |
Edge, Julian & Ellis, Melanie. Teacher education and empowerment: a view from a distance | pp.213-218 |
Webber, Richard. Where do we go from here? | pp.213-223 |