"Textbooks play a pivotal role in language classrooms in all types of educational institutions - state schools, colleges, language schools - all over the world. Some fortunate teachers are free to choose the textbooks they use themselves. The vast majority of teachers have textbooks either suggested for them, or, in the case of the teaching of English in Japan, prescribed.
"This article suggests a number of ways in which traditional, grammar-focused textbooks, operating on a grade-quota system, can be adapted and supplemented to cater for the ever growing stress being placed in English teaching on communication. Although the materials directly relate to English teaching in junior and senior high schools in Japan, they are of relevance to all teachers of English world-wide."
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