TY - BOOK AU - Sheldon,Leslie E. TI - ELT textbooks and materials, problems in evaluation and development T2 - English language teaching documents SN - 906149967 U1 - 428.2428 PY - 1987/// CY - England PB - Modern English Publications KW - EVALUATION KW - TEXTBOOKS KW - TEXTBOOKS FOR FOREIGN SPEAKERS KW - ENGLISH LANGUAGE N1 - Contents I Introduction 1 II Evaluating Materials Which Materials?: A Consumer's and Designer's Guide 13 Not So Obvious 29 What's Underneath?: An Interactive View of Materials Evaluation 37 Coursebooks and Conversational Skills 45 A Consumer's Guide to ELT Dictionaries 55 The Pragmatic Purchaser 76 III Producing Materials Publishers and the Art of the Possible 85 Learning by Design: Some Design Criteria for EFL Coursebooks 90 The Evaluation of an ESP Textbook 99 IV ADAPTING MATERIALS Curriculum Cobbling: or How Companies Can Take Over and Effectively Use Commercial Materials 109 Can Published Materials Be Widely Used for ESP Courses? 119 ER -