- Alan Maley has been involved in ELT for over 45 years.
- He has worked for the British Council in Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, China, India, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia as well as his native country UK.
- He has published widely and is series editor of the Oxford Resource Books for Teachers.
- His publications include Resource Book for Teachers: Literature, Beyond Words, Sounds Interesting, Sounds Intriguing, Words, Variations on a Theme, and Drama Techniques in Language Learning, The Mind’s Eye, Learning to listen and Poem into Poem, Short and Sweet, and The Language, Teacher’s Voice.
- He is currently a freelance consultant, and Series Editor for the Oxford University Press and his main current interests are in creative writing and innovative materials design.
- “I have been fortunate to have lived through one of the major transformations in thinking/practice in ELT. When I came in, in 1962, the situational/structural paradigm held sway. There were relatively few materials to speak of. We were under the influence of Palmer, Daniel Jones, Firth and Hornby. Within a decade or so, everything was changing. The Chomskyan revolution had come (and gone?), Wilkins and the Threshold level had taken hold, and the new communicative wave was on the brink of unfurling“.
- “There have, of course, been excesses in the movement for more communicative methods of teaching. But this is no doubt inevitable. In any case, teachers have a way of mediating new ideas in their own way!”
- To read more about Alan Maley and his EFL profession you can visit this website:http://www.eltnews.com/features/interviews/2001/06/interview_with_alan_maley.html .
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