ELE textbooks and their creatives process: an author’s reflection

Abstract

It is a real fact that most of the education institutions such as universities, language schools or Spanish teaching academies as a foreign language are using textbooks for guiding teachers and learners in their pedagogic and learning process. The teachers are knowledgeable of all the teaching textbooks in the market. They know the standpoint, methodology and they adjust them accordingly to their needs in class. Nevertheless, they do not always know the background of these teaching textbooks or either their creative process. The main point of this article is going through the making of a teaching handbook from scratch until its publication.