Managing evaluation and innovation in language teaching : building bridges / edited by Pauline Rea-Dickins and Kevin P. Germaine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index.

The price of everything and the value of nothing : trends in language programme evaluation / P. Rea-Dickins and K.P. Germaine -- Evaluating the implementation of educational innovations : lessons from the past / Kia Karavas-Doukas -- Language and cultural issues in innovation : the European dimension / Celia Roberts -- Programme evaluation by teachers : issues of policy and practice / Richard Kiely -- Using institutional self-evaluation to promote the quality of language and communication training programmes / R. Mackay [and others] -- Managing developmental evaluation activities in teacher education : empowering teachers in a new mode of learning / Tricia Hedge -- Managing and evaluating change : the case of teacher appraisal / Jane Anderson -- Evaluating the discourse : the role of applied linguistics in the management of evaluation and innovation / Adrian Holliday -- Evaluating and researching grammar consciousness-raising tasks / Rod Ellis -- Linking change and assessment / Michael Fullan -- Eavesdropping on debates in language education and learning / Elliot Stern.

This book explores the importance of evaluation in relation to language projects and programmes, the management of change and innovation, and in improving language teacher development.