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Developing and using content-based materials
(Oxford University Press)
 
Thomas Robb
Kyoto Sangyo University
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ABSTRACT
After giving a brief overview of the rationale for content-based teaching and a summary of the current scholarship in this area, we will examine how we can develop our own content-based materials for use in large classes. First we will critically examine the content-based materials in two Oxford University Press textbooks, “Gateways” and “Springboard”, in order to gain an appreciation of many ways that content can be presented. We will then look at the Oxford Springboard website (http://www.oup.com/elt/springboard) to see how lesson plans have been built around actual private and commercial websites. While the materials in the workshop will be drawn from Oxford publications, the techniques learned will be applicable to any course in communicative English teaching.
 

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Robb is a professor at Kyoto Sangyo Daigaku (Japan) in the Faculty of Foreign Language. He has been a computer user for 20 years and has been surfing the net for 7 years. Professor Robb is involved with the TESL-L lists and is the technical editor for TESL-EJ (electronic journal). His main focus is on ways to use the internet effectively for language teaching and learning. He is a past president of JALT (national) and is on the executive board of “TESOL Quarterly”.

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