This article reviews the literature on the relatively new field of materials development for
language learning and teaching. It reports the origins and development of the field and then …

Teaching Materials and the Roles of EFL/ESL Teachers is published amidst a decade long
increase in academic publications and training courses concerned with the evaluation and …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning is an authoritative
handbook dealing with all aspects of this increasingly important field of study. It has been …

Though there is an extensive literature on materials in language teaching, little if any of it
examines the relationship between materials such as textbooks and the totality of the …

There have been a number of accounts in the literature by materials developers of the
process they follow when developing materials. Rather surprisingly, many of them describe …

If I had been asked what I wanted from coursebooks when I was teaching languages in
Japan, England, Singapore and Oman in the last 30 years, my answer would have always …

In foreign language contexts, course books assume a considerable amount of responsibility
for the structuring of class time, classroom interaction, and language learning. In this paper …

The study examined EFL instructors' perceptions of English textbooks. It also investigated
whether the instructors' gender and the type of textbooks they used had a significant impact …

ELT materials, although they tend again to be based on relating theories of language and
language learning to materials development rather than research into the materials …

Much empirical research on textbook analysis has been undertaken. However, little
evidence with regard to the adoption of SLA findings in the textbook analysis was reported …