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Underwood, Gary N. – Florida FL Reporter, 1974
Criticizes the lack of innovation and solid substance in most composition texts and freshman handbooks for college English. Also criticizes bidialectalism as an elitist concept. (RM)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Material Development, Nonstandard Dialects
Download full textShahheidaripour, Gholamabbass – Online Submission, 1998
Course books are said to be the core of language teaching and learning processes on which the EFL teachers and English language institutes obviously base their activities. EFL students often consult teachers for a suitable textbook or even a good institute to be recommended to them for self-study or regular classroom attendance. Frankly speaking,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
Presents a fictionalized account illustrating the process by which willful states, misguided experts, cunning marketeers, and overworked teachers and administrators produce textbooks that are ill-written, confusing, misleading, and boring. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation, Material Development
LINDELL, EBBE – 1967
THE CONSTRUCTION, REVISION, AND STANDARDIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL IN GERMAN IS DISCUSSED IN THIS REPORT AFTER CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO THE METHODS AND GOALS CONNECTED WITH THE PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE MATERIAL. THE ROLE OF RESEARCHERS, AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING COURSE MATERIAL IS OUTLINED. DESCRIPTIONS ARE…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, German, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
Publishers are compelled by public policies and practices to produce textbooks that confuse students with non sequiturs, mislead them with misinformation, and bore them with pointlessly arid writing. Recommendations for textbook policy are proposed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1985
The results of an APEID (Asia and the Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development) workshop on producing textbooks and other teaching and learning materials, especially in reading, for the first level of education are provided in this book. An initial overview presents the objectives and the organization of the workshop. The second…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Materials
Nolen, Barbara; Goetz, Delia – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This "Writers' Handbook" was prepared in response to the many requests for "a book that tells how to write textbooks and other educational materials for schools." These requests have come from educators of other countries as well as from the United States. The authors believe that the handbook holds valuable information and suggestions for heads…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Guides, Instructional Design
