Resisting Coursebooks

Abstract

Each of the chapters in this collection casts a critical eye on some aspect of second language teaching materials, identifying and problematising issues of representation, ideology and use that are often ignored, avoided or overlooked by the producers and consumers of these materials. Thus, a number of contributors critique the way that particular discourses are represented, misrepresented or under-represented in coursebooks, while others draw attention to the complexity of materials production. Several chapters suggest ways and means by which the under-problematised nature of coursebook production and use might be redressed.