The term 'language teaching materials' can, of course, refer to an enormous variety of
objects including, amongst many other things, teacher-produced exercises, newspaper …

Materials evaluation and design remains an under-explored area in the field of language
teaching, with only a handful of books on the subject appearing in the last twenty-five years …

IN RECENT YEARS, LANGUAGE LEARNING materials, especially for English language
learning, have gone from being a neglected area of research and publication to one that has …

Any discussion of the topic of this chapter must begin with a clarification of the central terms
involved.“Materials” can, of course, mean any or all of the very wide range of resources …

As the chapters in this volume show, materials development for language teaching has
come a long way in establishing itself as an independent field of academic study (see …

Bryan works at a language centre in an English-medium university in Asia. He has been
assigned to teach a series of advanced grammar workshops at a summer school for …

In some circles of applied linguistics, materials development research has an image
problem. It is portrayed as 'something of a “black art”'(Low 1989: 153),'fundamentally a …

Why do we need to conduct systematic and rigorous research on TESOL textbooks and
materials? In short, because teaching materials are such important teaching and learning …

This book provides 23 up-to-date research reports in material development from 15
countries in five continents. The kinds of materials in focus include English for Young …

English Language Teaching Materials: Theory and Practice provides an overview of the
current state of materials design in language teaching. This volume provides an incisive …