http://www.man.ac.uk/langlit/eltgen.htm

Some of the articles below might be useful?

Reading with a Purpose: Communicative Reading Tasks for the Foreign Language Classroom

http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/reading_digest.html

Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials?
Intellectual Property Policies for a New Learning Environment

By Carol A. Twigg

http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono2.html

Cognitive efficiency: Toward a revised theory of media. Educational Technology Research & Development, 45 (4), 21-35.

By Tom Cobb (1997), Dépt de linguistique et de didactique des langues, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

ABSTRACT
Within and beyond the field of educational technology, Richard Clark's writings are widely believed to have shown that any number of media are equally capable of delivering any instruction, so that media choices are about cost and efficiency but not about cognition and learning (Clark, 1983; 1994b). However, if it is accepted that one type of efficiency is cognitive efficiency, then it follows that media choices are often about cognition and learning and can profit from an understanding of cognitive processes. Media and learning can then be reconnected in limited ways that do not compromise any of Clark's main points, and doing this will bring media work into line with current research into the role of surface information codes.

Cobb, T., & Horst, M. Reading academic English: Carrying learners across the lexical threshold.  In John Flowerdew & Matthew Peacock (Eds.) The English for Academic Purposes Curriculum (pp. 315-329). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Articles for review
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/644/reviews.htm

Cobb, T. & Horst, M. Vocabulary sizes of some City University students. City University (HK) Journal of Language Studies, 1, 59-68