教材在英语教学过程中起着至关重要的作用，教师若能科学、合理地对教材进行评估、改编和开发，可以极大提升教学质量、提高教学水平。《新课标英语教师培训丛书：为学习者评估、改编和开发教材：英语作为国际语言》作者Brian Tomlinson教授是国际著名教材研究专家、国际教材开发协会（MATSDA）创始人兼现任主席。在书中，他紧密围绕评估、改编和开发三大环节，结合具体教学案例，提出了其中的原则、标准、步骤和实践方法，每一章还设置读后任务，附有推荐阅读书目。全书言简意赅，可操作性强，可以有效指导广大中小学英语教师学习并实践教材的评估、改编和开发，为从事英语教学研究的读者带来宝贵的经验和启示。

　　In the past 20 years or so， enormous efforts have been made by the Chinese educational authorities to help English teachers with their professional development.Various programs have been proposed and launched to help improve English teachers' language proficiency， cross-cultural awareness in teaching， to inform them of new developments in language teaching research and to train them in using information technologies in language teaching. While all this has been very useful in raising the overall qualifications ofschool teachers， there are still pressing demands for more up-to-date ideas and practical methods for teachers to adopt or adapt in their classrooms， especially in the face of the new and challenging task of understanding and implementing the new curriculum standards for senior high schools issued by the Ministry ofEducation in 2017.To provide teachers with up-to-date and authoritative guides to latest ideas and methods in language teaching， we have invited some world leading scholars in second language learning and teaching， Rod Ellis，Brian Tomlinson， to name just a few， to reorganize and present their research findings and recent thoughts on language teaching and research in a way more easily accessible to school teachers in China. Topics will range from task-based language teaching， course design， cross-cultural communication， activities and feedback in the classroom， material development， to learning assessment and evaluation， IT in language teaching， etc. It is hoped the book series can be used separately by teachers and schools who are interested in particular topics or collectively on a teacher training program. Hopefully， they can also serve as extra-curriculum readings for future language teachers in normal universities.Language is a complex cognitive and social activity. Language teaching will surely become more effective and efficient when both teachers and educational administrators have a better understanding of the nature of language and language learning and the various factors that need to be considered when implementing language teaching.

Author's Preface
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Materials Evaluation
Chapter Three Criterion Referenced Evaluation of Materials
Chapter Four Materials Adaptation
Chapter Five Materials Adaptation
Chapter Six Frameworks for Materials Development
Chapter Seven A Text-D．riven Learning （TDL） Approach to Materials
Development
Conclusion