Critical Investigation of Innovation and Change in English Language Education Book Ken Hyland and Lillian L. C. Wong

With the aim of curriculum innovation and teacher professional development, the book Innovation and Change in English Language Education approaches the issue of innovationin the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) and the foundations for change. The maingap that encouraged the authors of the book to start writing the book was that althoughteachers are often exposed to the talk of innovation, there seems to be no lasting impression on them, and finally, on the curriculum. In fact, the authors are curious about howinnovations come into being, are introduced, taken up and in what ways do they affectteachers, practice or policy (p. xiv).