Dr. Richards has written numerous articles on a wide variety of topics in language teaching. The following are examples of recent articles for an audience of classroom language teachers.

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• Materials Design in Language Teacher Education: An Example from Southeast Asia
  -from International Perspectives on Language Teacher Education. Macmillan. 2015, 90-106.
• The Changing Face of Language Learning: Learning Beyond the Classroom
  – RELC Journal 45,1, 1-18
• Easier said than done
  – originally appeared in A. Hidalgo, D. Hall and G. Jacobs (eds). 1995. Getting Started: Materials Writers on Materials Writing. Singapore: RELC 95-135
• Teaching spoken English in Iran’s private language schools – issues and options
• English in Iran
• Towards a Pedagogy of Grammar Instruction
  – Jack C Richards and Randi Reppen, published in RELC Journal 2014, 45, 5-25
• Creativity in Language Teaching
  -plenary address given at City University of Hong Kong, 5th June 2013.
• Curriculum Approaches in Language Teaching: Forward, Central, and Backward Design
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 44(1), 2013
• Teacher Thinking and Foreign Language Teaching
  -published in MEXTESOL Journal, Volume 18, Number 2, 1994
• Classroom Observation in Teaching Practice
  -from Jack C Richards and Thomas Farrell: Practice Teaching. Cambridge University Press.
• Peer Observation
  -from Jack C Richards and Thomas Farrell: Professional Development for Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press.
• Teaching Portfolios
  -from Jack C Richards and Thomas Farrell: Professional Development for Language Teachers. Cambridge University Press.
• The structure of a language lesson
  -from Jack C Richards and Charles Lockhart. Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms. Cambridge University Press.
• Listening comprehension approach, design, and procedure
  -although nearly 30 years old this paper is still often cited as a “classic” paper on listening comprehension – most recently in Tony Lynch’s book Teaching Second Language Listening, – Oxford University Press 2009 – which includes extended discussion of the article.
• Competence and-Performance in Language Teaching
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 41, August 2010, pp.101-122
• Moving Beyond the Plateau: From Intermediate to Advanced Levels in Language Learning
• Second Language Teacher Education Today
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 39.2. 2008, pp.158-177
• Teaching Listening and Speaking: From Theory to Practice
• The Changing Face of TESOL
  Jack Richards’ plenary address at the 2009 TESOL Convention in Denver USA, March 27 2009
• Looking Back: Reflections on a Career in Applied Linguistics
  This article was written at the request of Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, (Beijing, China) to be included in an anthology of Jack Richards’ works.
• Developing Classroom Speaking Activities; From Theory to Practice
  -published in Guidelines, (RELC, Singapore), Vol 28, 2, Dec 2006, pp. 3-9
• Teaching And Learning In The Language Teacher Education Course Room:
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 37, 2, August 2006, pp.149-175
• Materials Development & Research – Making the Connections
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 37, 1, April 2006, pp.5-26.
• Communicative Language Teaching Today
• Second Thoughts on Teaching Listening
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 36, 1, April 2005, pp.85-92.
• The Role of Textbooks in a Language Program
• Exploring Teachers’ Beliefs and the Processes of Change
  -published in PAC Journal, Vol 1, 1, 2001, pp.41-64.
• 30 Years of TEFL/TESL: A Personal Reflection
  -published in RELC Journal, Vol 33, 2, 2002, pp.1-36.
  -a revised version of this paper appears in Dr. Richards’ book
  Curriculum Development in Language Teaching
• Content Knowledge and Instructional Practice
  -originally published in Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown University Press, 1991, pp. 76-99
• A Non-Contrastive Approach to Error Analysis
  –  This is one of Dr. Richards’ early publications. A revised version of this paper appeared in the journal English Language Teaching in 1971