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In Tomlinson (1998), I mentioned that very few books had been published on materials development. This reflected the feeling at the time that materials development was ‘insufficiently academic’ to be treated as a field in its own right and that it was a “subsection of methodology, in which materials were usually introduced as examples of methods in action rather than as a means to explore the principles and procedures of their development” (Tomlinson, 2001, p. 66).
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Tomlinson, B. (2016). The Importance of Materials Development for Language Learning. In: Azarnoosh, M., Zeraatpishe, M., Faravani, A., Kargozari, H.R. (eds) Issues in Materials Development. Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT). SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-432-9_1
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