Textbook and Present-Day Requirements for Course Design

Abstract

These days foreign language course design requirements are diverse depending on the social-political and economic conditions of a given society, existing linguistic and pedagogical theories, opportunities provided by scientific-technical progress and the individual and public personality of the learner. The current article attempts to combine the underlying components, aims and means that make up the given foreign language course emphasizing the role of the textbook as a decisive factor. Special reference is made to the tasks that might contribute to develop student-oriented courses as well as to the working characteristics of the group of authors that is engaged in the development of the course.