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Professor Alan Maley celebrates 25 years as
Resource Books for Teachers Series Editor
at a special event at IATEFL, Cardiff.
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After 25 years as Series Editor of the Resource Books for Teachers series, Professor Alan Maley has decided to step down. Alan has been involved with the Resource Books for Teachers series since it was first commissioned in 1984. He is the author of two of the titles in the series - Literature (with Alan Duff) and Advanced Learners - and has proposed numerous other ideas for titles and authors to develop the scope of the series. Originally planned as a series of twelve books, there have been nearly 50 titles in the Resource Books for Teachers series with over thirty currently in print. In 2004, a sub-series for primary teachers was introduced and the whole series was re-launched with new branding.
The series aims to provide practising or trainee teachers with ideas to help extend and diversify their everyday classroom practice. The series was quickly recognized as a source of interesting, thoughtful, and useful ideas. Talking about the vision behind the series, Alan explains ‘It's always been part of our philosophy that the Resource Books for Teachers would not only offer a great wealth of fresh ideas in ready-made form for teachers, but also stimulate them to adapt these ideas and to come up with new ones.’
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RBTs put the emphasis on the practical, with each book consisting of 60-100 classroom activities, techniques, and materials. Each book concentrates on a particular aspect of language teaching: a skill, an aspect of language, a teaching technique, or the use of a particular resource. 25 years after the series was commissioned, this year’s new titles - Drama and Improvisation (Ken Wilson), Advanced Learners (Alan Maley), Grammar for Young Learners (Gordon Lewis, Hans Mol), Images (Jamie Keddie) and a second edition of Andrew Wright’s award-winning Storytelling with Children - are the last to join the series, which is now closed to new titles.
The quality of the RBTs has been recognized by the prestigious awards given to individual titles - the British Council Innovation Award (Assessing Young Learners), the English-Speaking Union’s Duke of Edinburgh Book Competition (Writing with Children), the Frank Bell Prize (Listening).
Alan’s long and valuable association with OUP was celebrated at IATEFL Cardiff with a special event to mark the occasion. Several hundred teachers joined new Resource Books authors Ken Wilson, Jamie Keddie, and Hans Mol to experience activities from the new books at first hand. In a speech following the event, Marion Cooper, OUP’s ELT Publishing Director thanked Alan for the ‘extraordinary contribution he has made to our publishing’. N S Prabhu summed up that ‘extraordinary contribution’ with this message: ‘he has an instinct for what will produce lively and fruitful classroom activity. … The greatest tribute to his teaching materials that I know of is: "they work".’
For further information please contact:
Mary Franklin, Deputy Marketing Director, ELT Division, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
Tel: 01865 353563
Email: mary.franklin@oup.com
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