布雷恩等编的《课堂教学决策/外语教学法丛书》并不是讨论教师如何作出“课堂教学决策”，而是阐述如何使学生参与“课堂教学决策”，由此引出一个近年来在外语教学中出现的一个概念，即语言教学中的“协商”（negotiation）的定义是什么、如何实现教师和学生在外语学习中的“协商”、在“协商”过程中会出现什么问题、如何解决这些问题等。

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction and overview

 1 The sigruficance ofnegotiation

Part 1 Accounts of practice in primary and secondary schools Overview

 2 Negotiated evaluation in a primary ESL context

 3 Negotiating assessment with secondary-schoolpupils

 4 Introducing negotiation processes: an experiment with creative project work

 5 We do what we like': negotiated classroom work with Hungarian children

 6 Is a negotiated syllabus feasible within a national curriculum?

 7 Refining negotiated classroom work in a Spanish secondary school

Part 2 Accounts of praaice in tertiary institutions Overview

 8 Negotiation in tertiary education: clashes with the dominant educational culture

 9 Syllabus negotiation in a school of nursing

 10 Negotiating the syllabus:learning needs analysis through pictures

 11 Reality therapy: using negotiated work in a techriical-writing class

 12 Negotiation of outcome: evaluation and revision decisions in the writing curriculum

 13 Learners, practitioners, teachers: diamond spotting and negotiating role boundaries

Part 3 Accounts ofpractice in teacher education Overview

 14 A process syllabus in a methodology course: experiences,beliefs, challenges

 15 Discourse, process and reflection in teacher education

 16 Negotiation, process, content and partiapants' experience in a process syllabus for ELT professionals

 17 Negotiation as a participatory dialogue Conclusions

 18 The practicalities ofnegotiation

References

Index