Materials evaluation and design in language teaching

By Ian McGrath. Language Teaching, 2002

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Incorporating Global Englishes into the ELT classroom (2018, background): “It is unfortunate that the majority of ELT materials today fail to acknowledge the diversity of the English language, and that no publisher has yet ‘dare[d] to be different’ (McGrath 2013: 198).”
Materials development for language learning and teaching (2012, methodology): “McGrath (2002) suggests procedures for in-use and post-use evaluation of materials to find out more about what teachers actually do with their materials and Masuhara (2011) suggests a record of use as a means of uncovering data on teachers’ classroom use of materials.”
Why Use Music in English Language Learning? A Survey of the Literature. (2013, background): “The validity of using authentic and natural language input “including real-world/target tasks, pedagogical tasks and enabling skills” (Nunan, 2004: 19) so that “there is some sort of relationship to comparable real-world activities” (Skehan, 1998: 95) has been noted as a motivating factor in the lan”
Teacher professional development through collaborative action research: impact on foreign English-language teaching and learning (2013, methodology): “Therefore, the view emerged that coursebooks and teacher-materials could be integrated (McGrath 2002).”