1st Edition · Routledge · 2026
ELT Teacher Education Materials
Purposes, Possibilities and Practices
By Briony Beaven
This companion site gives you access to the book's Notebook Investigations — materials writing tasks for chapters 4–10 and Appendix 3 — along with Noa, the AI voice in Noticing, who will facilitate your thinking as you develop your own teacher education materials.
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What you'll find here
Notebook Investigations
Eight materials-writing tasks (chapters 4–10 plus Appendix 3) with three task options each, sample materials, reference boxes and appendix answers.
Chat with Noa
Noa is the AI voice in Noticing — a facilitator of mentoring experiences who will support your thinking as you design your materials.
Closely connected to the book
Each task is linked to the chapter's theory and sample materials. You'll need your copy of the book to get the most from these investigations.
About the book
ELT Teacher Education Materials: Purposes, Possibilities and Practices explores appropriate goals and models for English Language Teaching (ELT) teacher education materials and establishes principles for their design. It offers an AI-app supported developmental guide to designing effective, context-appropriate teacher training materials that reference relevant theoretical frameworks.
The book provides sample materials that clearly illustrate each chapter's theoretical perspective, together with discussion questions. Readers will develop their own skills in writing materials for teacher education through customised writing tasks closely connected to the chapter's theory and sample materials, and can obtain help in completing these tasks via the AI 'critical friend' links on this companion site.
This is a key resource for academics and researchers in teacher education, ELT teacher educators in different kinds of institutions around the world, and students in ELT/TESOL — particularly those on courses that include components related to teacher training or materials writing.
Critics' reviews
“Briony Beaven has produced an invaluable resource, likely to take a prominent place on the bookshelves of ELT teacher educators for years to come. Embedded in contemporary theories of language teacher education, it offers a wealth of practical advice on teacher education materials and engaging activities that will both challenge and extend pre-service and in-service teacher development.”
“This much-needed book is academically rigorous and well-researched, yet remains very accessible. It holds great potential for teacher educators in a wide range of ELT contexts, including programmes leading to formal qualifications. It allows varied options for engagement with the content, and in exploring concepts such as critical evaluation and reflective practices through its chapter focuses and hands-on activities, it 'practises what it preaches'.”
“This book provides an excellent survey of theory and research as well as offering practical and creative ideas for developing teacher education materials. A particular strength of the book is the way it clearly shows how practical ideas relate to underlying theory. This will make it an invaluable source of ideas both for academics and for teacher educators and training course developers.”
“This detailed book provides a strong theoretical grounding for creators of teacher training materials, along with ready-to-use examples which put the theory into practice. Prompts for trainers to create their own materials supplement each chapter, providing guidance on how to apply the theory to trainers' own contexts. The book will be useful for researchers and trainers alike.”
About the author
Briony Beaven is a language teaching consultant, teacher educator and materials writer. Her professional roles have included a post as the Director of Studies in a large adult education institute, and working as a Cambridge Teaching Awards CELTA and DELTA tutor, assessor and moderator. Briony has worked with teachers around the world, and has tutored on an MA in English Language Teaching. She has written coursebooks and many articles for professional journals. Her ELT qualifications include the UCLES Dip. TEFL and a Doctorate of Education in TEFL.
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