Despite coverage of materials development principles in the applied linguistics literature, principled production of open textbooks has not received attention. To address this gap and demonstrate the interdisciplinary potential of materials development research, the authors drew upon concurrent verbalization and interview data they collected while…

Since understanding reading assignments is important to succeeding in school, improving the way that text is arranged in books would be an efficient way to help students better understand the material and perform well on tests. In this study, we asked students to read two original and two rearranged historical passages, in which rephrased…

Introduces an annotated bibliography of English-German contrastive studies which are directly or indirectly relevant to foreign language teaching, in an attempt to acquaint language teachers with available linguistic resources. Usefulness of the works to teachers being one of the main selection criteria, it omits highly abstract or theoretical…