ABSTRACT
The vital need for improving the quality of FL education and promoting innovation is widely acknowledged and often associated with increasing investments in relation to further refining and understanding learners’ needs, teacher training, materials, and infrastructure. Very often, however, quantitative targets are set while quality aspects are unappreciated or ignored. Nevertheless, quality in learning can be achieved by exploiting and putting into practice innovative ideas. Therefore, TESOL materials should cater to learners’ lifelong FL needs in different linguacultures of English. Based on this premise, the aim of this chapter is to explore the notion of quality in TESOL materials and draw a checklist of quality-guiding criteria for the design of TESOL materials that can enhance learners’ intercultural awareness and competence, in particular, and promote lifelong learning-to-learn strategies.
