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…

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…

Papers from an international conference on language teaching/learning are presented by topic and grouped under seven sections. An introductory section contains two papers on cultural diversity and world English. The second section, on teacher development, contains papers on these topics: teacher development and socialization; teachers' responses…