References

This page lists the authoritative documents that anchor every Unit on this site. Per-Unit “Further reading / listening” callouts point to specific authentic resources for that topic; the references below are the framework, not the topic-by-topic reading.

Curriculum Link to heading

• curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) 2016 — Sekundarstufe I — Englisch (Erste Fremdsprache). Ministerium für Kultus, Jugend und Sport Baden- Württemberg. https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/
• curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) 2021 — Gymnasiale Oberstufe — Englisch (Basisfach und advanced course (“Leistungsfach”)). Ministerium für Kultus, Jugend und Sport Baden-Württemberg. https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/
• Gemeinsamer Europäischer Referenzrahmen für Sprachen (GER) / CEFR Companion Volume. Council of Europe. https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages

Pedagogy and didactics Link to heading

• Penny Ur. A Course in English Language Teaching. Cambridge UP.
• Jim Scrivener. Learning Teaching. Macmillan.
• Scott Thornbury. About Language; How to Teach Speaking; How to Teach Vocabulary. Pearson.
• Paul Nation. Learning Vocabulary in Another Language. Cambridge UP.
• David Crystal. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge UP.

Language reference Link to heading

• Cambridge Grammar of English — Carter & McCarthy.
• Practical English Usage — Michael Swan, Oxford UP.
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (online).

Authentic-text sources used in Units Link to heading

• BBC Learning English — https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish
• The Guardian (Education and main sections) — https://www.theguardian.com
• Project Gutenberg — https://www.gutenberg.org
• Poetry Foundation — https://www.poetryfoundation.org
• The British Library Open Collections — https://www.bl.uk

Tooling Link to heading

• Quarto — https://quarto.org
• Pandoc — https://pandoc.org
• Reveal.js — https://revealjs.com
• Lucide icons — https://lucide.dev
• Source Sans 3 — https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+3
• JetBrains Mono — https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

Acknowledgements Link to heading

A separate Acknowledgements page names the direct didactic, content, and tooling influences behind this site, along with the personal thanks owed to colleagues and students who tested half-finished materials in real classrooms.

Citing this course Link to heading

If you use these materials in teaching, research, or further publication, please cite the site rather than individual pages so that revisions remain traceable.

APA (7th ed.):

Le Boulanger, S. (2026). EFL: A two-track English curriculum for comprehensive school (Grades 5–13) [Open educational resource]. https://boulingua.github.io/efl/

BibTeX:

@misc{leboulanger2026efl,
  author       = {Le Boulanger, S.},
  title        = {{EFL}: A Two-Track English Curriculum for
                  Comprehensive School (Grades 5--13)},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://boulingua.github.io/efl/}},
  note         = {Open educational resource.
                  Code: MIT; teaching content: CC-BY 4.0}
}

When citing a single Unit, add the course track, grade, and Unit title (e.g. Track E, Grade 6, Unit 3 — In the City) to the reference so readers can locate the specific material.