Adapting and Adopting Materials

Abstract

The diversity of language teaching contexts around the world is immense. One variable that contributes to that diversity is the amount of control teachers have over what they teach. Many teachers work in a situation where the curriculum, the materials, and the assessment are centrally imposed; this is often the case in national education systems (see e.g., Parent, 2011). Other teachers, however, may have a free hand to determine the goals and all other aspects of a course; in such cases there is a great deal of scope for negotiation between teachers and learners (Boon, 2011; Clarke, 1991).