Elements of Language Curriculum: A Systematic Approach to Program Development

If you are interested in making your own course, this book will help you a lot with a variety of categories in which you can find many more sub-elements to be taken into account. This is great for you to have a whole view of the program with diverse aspects to it.(closer to theoritical base)

This book is quite useful for writing researcher paper on language curriculum or program evaluation. It is academically valuable, but it is also easily understandable for everyone because the language is not diffcult at all. It has good literature review of related topics. It also includes real examples of some ESL programs in the US. This books helped me a lot to write a research paper on a langauge course evaluation. It is good for individual use as well as a textbook for any graduate courese of curriculum development or evaluation. Plus, the layout of this book is pretty pleasant.