On the Development of English Teaching Materials for Students in Colleges of Technology

This paper makes an attempt to extract significant ways to develop teaching materials for college level Japanese learners of English and stress the importance of developing effective reading textbooks. The author is engaged in examining the development of English teaching materials for students in colleges of technology based on recent reading material development research and second/foreign language reading research. The questionnaire data on the textbooks show that the critical factor motivating students in English reading practice is that the textbooks offer interesting contents along with an effective support system for reading.