Two Teachers, One Textbook: Challenges and Changes [articol]

Abstract

This paper offers an insight into the efforts of two teachers trying to put together a textbook, called English for Social Sciences. The teachers are myself and a friend, Ramona Bran, who is an English language teacher at the Faculty of Sociology and Psychology, within the West University of Timisoara, where I also used to work until the autumn of 2015. This book came with some challenges due to our target audience, our students, but also our styles of teaching which impinged on what we taught. This paper looks back at how these challenges were overcome and how we adapted to the changes necessary to come up with the book.