"I will not prescribe a particular type of material or materials based on a particular teaching philosophy or a particular on a particular teaching philosophy or language theory .... At other words, I believe that decisions regarding approaches, curricula, techniques and exercises should always be left to the people who are on the ground and in the classroom. the people who are on the ground and know the situation best. What I am advocating is a strategy in which the needs of the learners, the objectives, the tests, the teaching and the assessment of the programme are related to each other and to the materials". (Brown, 1995: 163)
