Using Language Learning Materials

Claudia Fernández is Clinical Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Basic Language Program at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research focuses on materials research, task-based language teaching, and the acquisition of grammar, and her work has been published in Hispania, The Language Educator, Folio, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition. She is the co-author of Aula en acción (Difusión), a beginner-level textbook to learn Spanish in higher education. Adon Berwick is a PhD Candidate at the Queensland University of Technology Australia. His doctoral research is a sociological investigation of the adaptation of a global EFL listening coursebook to a local context and the use of that coursebook in a university classroom. He has co-authored a number of papers in the fields of materials use, as well as the sociology of education.