Delta Module 3 Recommended Non-Specialist Reading List

The following are suggestions you may find useful for the non-specialism sections of your Module 3
Extended Assignment. Please note you are not required to have access to all of them; many contain
similar information and all core course material is provided via the website. We have highlighted in grey
titles which have been particularly popular with Module 3 course participants on previous courses.
Please note that there are some quite new titles on the list also.

General
Lightbown & Spada N 2000 How Languages are Learned OUP
Williams M, Burden R 1997 Psychology for Language Teachers CUP

Course Design and Needs Analysis

Dubin, F. / Olshtain, E. 1986. Course Design.CUP.
Graves, K. 2000. Designing Language Courses. Newbury House
Graves, K. (ed).1996. Teachers as Course Developers. CUP.
Hedge, T. 2000. Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom. OUP
Huhta,M / Vogt, K / Johnson, E / Tulkki, H. 2013 Needs Analysis for Language Course Design- A holistic
approach to ESP. CUP*
Hutchinson, T. and Walters, A. 1987. English for Specific Purposes. CUP
Nunan, D. 1988. Syllabus Design. OUP
Nunan D 1988 The Learner Centred Curriculum CUP
Richards, J. C. 1990. The Language Teaching Matrix. CUP
Tudor I 1997 Learner Centredness as Language Education CUP
Yalden, J. 1991 Principles of Course Design for Language Teaching. CUP
Articles
Seedhouse, P. 1995. Needs Analysis & the General English Classroom ELTJ 49/1
Young, John. 2000. Who needs analysis? ELTJ 54/1: 72

Testing and Assessment

Bachman, LF. 2011 Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing OUP
Baxter, A. 1999 Evaluating your students Richmond
Green , A. 2014 Exploring Language Assessment and Testing - Language in Action from the Routledge
Introductions to Applied Linguistics series. Routledge
Harris, M. & McCann, P. 1994 Assessment Heinemann
Hughes, A. 2003 Testing for Language Teachers Cambridge University Press
McNamara, T. 2000 Language Testing Oxford University Press

*Useful introduction