Grant Eckstein – författare

This book provides a comprehensive, contextualized approach to curriculum creation, design, development, and evaluation for Intensive English Programs. The book starts by guiding the reader through the important but often overlooked steps of contextualizing their current or future language curriculum to give decision makers the full picture of what their curriculum is intended to accomplish. Subsequent chapters break down the popular ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) model of curricular design into meaningful units focused on learner and context analysis, learning outcomes, assessments, materials, and implementation and evaluation processes. Accessible and engaging chapters include a variety of prompts, activities, and summaries to support learning and implementation.With instruction on how to build a language curriculum from scratch and insights for changing or improving an existing curriculum, this book is a key resource for instructors and program administrators in language programs as well as essential reading in TESOL methods and language curriculum design courses.

This book provides a comprehensive, contextualized approach to curriculum creation, design, development, and evaluation for Intensive English Programs. The book starts by guiding the reader through the important but often overlooked steps of contextualizing their current or future language curriculum to give decision makers the full picture of what their curriculum is intended to accomplish. Subsequent chapters break down the popular ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) model of curricular design into meaningful units focused on learner and context analysis, learning outcomes, assessments, materials, and implementation and evaluation processes. Accessible and engaging chapters include a variety of prompts, activities, and summaries to support learning and implementation.With instruction on how to build a language curriculum from scratch and insights for changing or improving an existing curriculum, this book is a key resource for instructors and program administrators in language programs as well as essential reading in TESOL methods and language curriculum design courses.

Guide to Reporting Verbs is an accessible guide to citing sources in academic writing across the disciplines. The way writers introduce previous literature is essential to authorial voice. Specifically, the effective use of reporting verbs can highlight important details about the cited work while allowing writers to present themselves as experts in their field. This reference guide lists the most common reporting verbs across various disciplines in the hard and soft sciences and provides important information about how they can be used in academic writing.The book:lists prevalent reporting verbs across six disciplines: applied linguistics, biology, history, philosophy, political science, and physicsprovides information on authorial voice for each reporting verbhighlights effective use of each reporting verb through inclusion of a definition, the lemma along with a few members of the word family, stance act(s), common contextual environments, example sentences from academic sources, the verb’s frequency in academic writing (based on two corpora, or databases), and the verb’s relative frequencies across disciplinesoffers practical tasks and exercises for students as online support materialOrganized so that readers can use the guide as either a quick reference or a study aide, this resource will empower students to use appropriate, discipline-specific reporting verbs in their academic writing.

Guide to Reporting Verbs is an accessible guide to citing sources in academic writing across the disciplines. The way writers introduce previous literature is essential to authorial voice. Specifically, the effective use of reporting verbs can highlight important details about the cited work while allowing writers to present themselves as experts in their field. This reference guide lists the most common reporting verbs across various disciplines in the hard and soft sciences and provides important information about how they can be used in academic writing.The book:lists prevalent reporting verbs across six disciplines: applied linguistics, biology, history, philosophy, political science, and physicsprovides information on authorial voice for each reporting verbhighlights effective use of each reporting verb through inclusion of a definition, the lemma along with a few members of the word family, stance act(s), common contextual environments, example sentences from academic sources, the verb’s frequency in academic writing (based on two corpora, or databases), and the verb’s relative frequencies across disciplinesoffers practical tasks and exercises for students as online support materialOrganized so that readers can use the guide as either a quick reference or a study aide, this resource will empower students to use appropriate, discipline-specific reporting verbs in their academic writing.

This book guides language teachers in planning and teaching activities that promote the development of reading and writing skills at all levels of target language proficiency, for teachers of any modern language. Grant Eckstein draws on his extensive experience as a language teacher, teacher educator, and language learner to interweave practical activities with the research and theory that support their use. He provides practical examples, assessments, syllabi, with concrete samples of lesson plans, and versatile strategies to promote the development of reading and writing applicable to various language learning contexts. The author shares reflections of his own and encourages readers to reflect on their own experiences and become aware of their existing mental constructs through multiple reflection tasks and discussion questions.Each chapter provides focusing questions. The systematic chapter structure scaffolds the readers' understanding of the concepts explored, which include multimodality, materials evaluation, top-down/bottom-up strategies, needs analysis, AI tools for language teachers, and much more.