Discussions in language teaching have most commonly emphasised applied linguistic or
educational arguments to explain innovation in teaching materials. This article, however …

English language teaching (ELT) publishing as we know it today has a long and lucrative
history, dating, according to Rix (2008), from the Longman publication of Michael West's …

Notice that I'm deliberately using the term'language learning materials' instead of the
usual'language teaching materials' in order to stress that one of my views is that many ELT …

More than anything else, textbooks continue to constitute the guiding principle of many
foreign language courses throughout the world. Certainly at the beginners' level textbooks …

The widespread use of commercially produced coursebooks tailored to a global market
remains a reality within English language teaching (ELT) across a broad range of teaching …

The worldwide enterprise of English Language Teaching (ELT) has consciously attended to
social rules and conventions in its modelling of language use. In this article I will first …

This book takes the view that ELT global coursebooks, in addition to being curriculum
artefacts, are also highly wrought cultural artefacts which seek to make English mean in …

Each of the chapters in this collection casts a critical eye on some aspect of second
language teaching materials, identifying and problematising issues of representation …

This book examines the role textbooks play in the teaching of dominant and non-dominant
(first and foreign) languages in a range of cultural contexts worldwide. Each chapter …

This study examines the representation of cultures and communities in the world across five
editions of New Headway elementary level textbook (NHE). It conducts a diachronic content …