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The ELT Textbook
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Despite the advances in technology and the role of the internet, coursebooks are the main teaching resource used by many of the world’s English teachers. The extent of English teaching worldwide could probably not be sustained without the support of the many different kinds of textbooks and their ancillaries that are available to support English teachers (Tomlinson, 2003). In many schools textbooks provide the main basis for the curriculum (Richards, 1993). Appel (2011: 50-51) comments: ‘In no other school subject do coursebooks exert a similar influence as in language teaching. The book is in fact often treated as the syllabus.’ Coursebooks often determine the goals and content of teaching, as well as the methods teachers use. For both teachers and learners, the textbook provides a map that lays out the general content of lessons and a sense of structure that gives coherence to individual lessons, as well as to an entire course. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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“The more international flavour and contemporary format were said to have given them a frantic ' busy-ness ' and a ' magazine-like appearance ' (Richards, 2014, p. 20) - reduced even to a ' tourist ' s perspective '”
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“The more international flavour and contemporary format were said to have given them a frantic ‘busy-ness’ and a ‘magazine-like appearance’ (Richards, 2014, p. 20) - reduced even to a ‘tourist’s perspective’ according to some (Yuen, 2011, p. 459).”
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- Authors
- Richards, J. C.
- Corresponding author
- Richards, Jack C.
- ORCID
- Richards, Jack C.
- Venue
- International Perspectives on Materials in ELT
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 19-36
- OpenAlex
- W2416096112
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 3.31
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › English Language Learning and Teaching
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Keywords
- English language teaching textbooks, coursebooks, textbook design, language syllabus, teaching materials, course program, English as a foreign language
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