This much-needed volume offers focused approaches and frameworks of designing or developing English materials in both EFL and ESL contexts. Informed by current empirical, theoretical, and practical grounds, the text treats key issues in English language teaching (ELT) materials design or development and sample ELT materials in which the justifications for such materials design or development are also discussed. Through the sample teaching materials included in the text, the readers can see underlying principles or frameworks of how those materials are designed or developed. In other words, this volume is a user-friendly guide to materials design or development for language teachers/practitioners in that theoretical or empirical considerations are balanced with practical materials.

Thus, The LINCOM Guide to Materials Design in ELT is a valuable collection not only for language teachers/practitioners, but also for language materials writers and developers, graduate students majoring in TESOL, pre-service teachers, and teacher educators and trainers who teach or engage in ELT materials design or development on secondary school, college, and university levels.

Contents: The Consumer-Designer Frame-works for Materials Writing (David Hall) - The Student-Situational Analyses for Adapting English Materials (Winnie Cheng) - Materials for Adult Learners of English (Ruth Epstein) - Literature in the CLT Classroom: Materials Design (Andrzej Cirocki) - Materials Development for Young Learners (Helen Emery) - Developing Materials for Content-Based Instruction (Michele de Courcy) - Materials for the ELT Classroom in the Post-Anglophone Period (Andy Kirkpatrick) - Learning Autonomy in the EFL Classroom through SAL Materials Development (Sugeng Ariyanto) - Developing Corpus Oriented English Materials (John Spiri) - Materials Design Task-Based English Adult Language Learning (Jonathan Newton) - The Use of Visual Aids in ELT Materials (Adriadi Novawan) - Culture and English Materials (Jane Orton) - ESP Materials Design in Action (Handoyo Puji Widodo, Ririn Pusporini) - Developing Task Based Materials, Ownership, and Identity Construction (Sharon K. Deckert) - Design Principles in Materials Development (Lilia Savova) - Using E-Portfolio to Engage Pre-Service Teachers in Developing CALL-based Materials (Muhammad Kamarul Kabilan, Mahbub Ahsan Khan).