It's time for a role-play: Student A: turn to page 61 Student B: turn to page 64 It is somehow assumed that in all classrooms, al...

They're really not getting it. They think coursebooks can be student-centered. Well, let me see if I can make it the slightest bit c...

They're not about the learners. So, er...mm.... why exactly are 2 billion people learning English? To make their lives "bet...

They're too expensive. Best, Karenne More reasons I don't like most textbooks? (scroll past this one ). p.s. I'm going to do a K...

Take a deep breath. Go on, blow out hard. I'm bringing a unicorn into the balloon factory. Although many of you will have read the follo...

One size fits all? The reason you can not make the perfect textbook is because our students aren't perfect: they do not fit into boxes o...

You have to be in ELT to get this... Whenever I go to a conference book stand or book fair I'm not looking for the almost exact replica ...

cultural incompatibility If we were to do a demographic poll of all textbooks written for the TEFL industry in the last 25 years, then we wo...

crowded pages. Best, Karenne 2nd reason