What do we want EAP teaching materials for?

This paper explores the various anti-textbook arguments in the literature to determine their relevance to the field of EAP. I distinguish between what I call a strong and a weak anti-textbook line, then review the corpus-based studies which compare the language EAP textbooks teach with corpora of the language academic writers use. After problematizing the methodology of some of the studies, I claim that the weak anti-textbook line most...