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Nu Anh Vo; Trung Nguyen Tran – TESOL Journal, 2025
This study examines coursebooks used to teach English to undergraduate students majoring in English at a public university in Vietnam. The aim is to evaluate the extent to which the coursebooks prepare students for future use of English as an international language. This is in response to a call made by key scholars, including those in Vietnam,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Second Language Instruction
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Gulnur Smagulova; Galiya Sarzhanova; Svetlana Romanenko; Roza Bobesh; Saltanat Jangeldinova – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
The purpose of the study is to present the results of investigating pre-service teachers' perceptions of their readiness to develop and use multimedia-based English language training textbooks. The dimensional structure of the designed readiness is regarded as a complex personal integrative quality. A corresponding survey questionnaire is compiled…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Textbook Preparation
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Jing Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article explores how leading textbook authors select and instruct vocabulary in beginner and intermediate Chinese textbooks used in the United States. Leading textbook authors were approached; subsequently; four authors completed interviews with pre-designed questions. Grounded theory methodology was used to analyse the interviews, and their…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Authors, Grammar, Word Frequency
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Dawn Atkinson; Stacey Corbitt – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Despite coverage of materials development principles in the applied linguistics literature, principled production of open textbooks has not received attention. To address this gap and demonstrate the interdisciplinary potential of materials development research, the authors drew upon concurrent verbalization and interview data they collected while…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
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Iamsirirak, Ekamorn – rEFLections, 2022
Coursebooks exist all over in the world of education. They are generally used as one of the major course materials. To write a coursebook for a particular course is challenging. This study was purposively conducted to develop a English grammar coursebook for teachers to meet the needs of teacher students in English education programs. The study…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rimkeeratikul, Sucharat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Using the framework of CLIL for the content and ESP for the language functions, this research investigated and analyzed the needs of current MA students, MA graduates and prospective employers as the basis for designing a textbook for an elective course entitled English for International Business. The results of a survey of 42 MA students, 48 MA…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Business English, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Syam, Andi Tenrisanna; Furwana, Dewi – Dinamika Ilmu, 2022
English for Islamic Studies is taught as the general subject in the State Islamic Institute of Palopo. Therefore, the researchers aimed to develop valid English materials for learners of the Islamic education study program. The researchers applied the 4-D model by Thiagarajan et al. It consists of four stages namely, defining, designing,…
Descriptors: Material Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Moore, Benjamin – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
As South East Asia enters a new decade of English language education, attempts are being made to maximize the utility of university EAP courses to fully meet students' language learning needs and prepare them for further academic study. In order for this to be achieved, language educators have begun to focus on incorporating '21st century skills'…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Ait Bouzid Hassan; Erguig Reddad; Yeou Mohamed – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2019
This paper is built on the assumption that there are no perfect language teaching textbooks; therefore, it hopes to draw the attention of Moroccan BLT practitioners to the viability of using textbook evaluation to improve the quality of these teaching-learning materials. It aims to investigate ways in which grammar lessons are presented in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Evaluation, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Fang, Fan; Yuan, Limin; Xu, Hongchen; Wang, Xueyi – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
The development of English as a global language has urged the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to implement some reforms in relation to textbook design and curriculum development as well as the approaches to and goals of English language teaching (ELT). From the multilingual perspective, Global Englishes (GE) and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies
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Munir, Sirajul – Dinamika Ilmu, 2019
This article discusses my experience in shaping EFL learners? project on textbook design in teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) subject. This task was challenging since the learners? project designing textbook was in the sixth semester students. This article first explores the concept of ESP, principles in developing materials and…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Social Values
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Köksa, Dinçay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
Language ideologies are the practices of culturally, socially, and historically shaped views, images, and attitudes toward language. The political characteristic of English is certainly a sort of cultural hegemony, embodying the use of the target language into experiences, interpretations, and reciprocally confirmed assumptions. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Textbooks
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Nuñez-Pardo, Astrid – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2018
This review article addresses tensions, critiques and trends that are still latent in mainstream research on English textbooks that have looked at their intercultural aspects, which need to be explored from the perspective of critical interculturality to resist the instrumental, regulatory, homogenizing and commercial nature of textbooks developed…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chong, Sin Wang – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2019
Recent literature on the use of exemplars in the context of higher education has shown that exemplar-based instruction is implemented in various disciplines; nevertheless, how exemplar-based instruction can be implemented in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing classrooms in higher education institutions remains under-explored. In this…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sidelnik, Ellina; Melnik, Olga; Burenko, Lyudmila – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper discusses the essentials of engineering discourse in the structure of the ESP training at Southern Federal University (SFU) (Taganrog, Russia). The purpose of this paper is to justify critical rethinking of existing programs of technical students training in foreign languages at SFU taking into account the increasing role of engineering…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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