Advances in Language and Literary Studies  

David Nunan

The purpose of this chapter is to present a task-based approach to materials development. In the first part of the chapter, I sketch out the evolution of task based language teaching, drawing on a distinction between synthetic and analytical approaches to... see more

Stephen J. Hall

There is little point in teachers and writers arguing for the good old days of copper plate writing and the perceived decay of the English language through on-line modes.....

Annie Hughes

This paper sets out to showTeachers of English to young learners need to support their learners’ general cognitive development and learning along with language learningthe use of stories has a very important role in teaching English to young learners (TEY... see more

Anealka Aziz,Chan Yuen Fook,Zubaida Alsree

Reading materials are considered having high readability if readers are interested to read the materials, understand the content of the materials and able to read the materials fluently. In contrast, reading materials with low readability discourage reade... see more

Ng Yu Jin

Students are believed to learn at optimum level with materials with a lot of white space since the existence of vast number of words and limited amount of whitespace, especially in textbooks may contribute to the increase in anxiety among learners (Tomlin... see more

Vahid Nimehchisalem

This paper reviews the issues of concern in writing scale development in English as Second Language (ESL) settings with an intention to provide a useful guide for researchers or writing teachers who wish to develop or adapt valid, reliable and efficient w... see more

Jayakaran Mukundan,Ng Yu Jin,Hong Siaw Swin,Vahid Nimehchisalem

One of the important decisions to be made by English Language Teaching (ELT) material developers or educators in various disciplines concerns the selection of vocabulary items that a learner should learn intentionally or unintentionally. Learning new voca... see more

Jayakaran Mukundan

There are two main reasons why textbooks are evaluated; the first which is associated to the task of textbook selection (predictive evaluation) and the second to the need to evaluate it while in use (retrospective evaluation) so that teachers can implemen... see more

Ali Ata Alkhaldi

Published language materials are widely used around the world, but many Foreign Language (FL) and/or Second Language (SL) learners still fail to develop their communicative competence satisfactorily and they are still not happy with their language materia... see more