This book aims at enabling teachers to generate innovative materials tailor-made for specific
groups of learners. The suggestions for materials design in this book will help teachers to
meet the needs of advanced learners to move from correct sentences to communicatively
effective texts to de-fossilize ingrained erroneous language to apply theoretical
understandings of communicative processes to language use and to become aware of their own
language needs and the learning options open to them. This is a book that is not only firmly
grounded in 'state-of-the-art' linguistic theory - in particular the findings of cognitive
linguistics - but it is above all the result of decades of collaborative English language
teaching experience at tertiary level. All the design ideas have been put into practice in the
classroom and have successfully passed the test of use.
