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Yanhong Liu; Lin An; Shan Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
Environmental issue is one of the public concerns pertaining to human welfare. English language education is supposed to take its part to contribute to the sustainable development. In this study, a corpus comprising 12 series of English language textbooks used in Chinese universities (48 volumes/books) was constructed to examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Özkan, Erdost – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the vocabulary included in listening texts in the textbooks used in teaching Turkish to foreigners according to their types. The study was limited to New Istanbul Turkish For International Students Course Book-A1 level. Accordingly, a total of eighteen listening texts in six units were analyzed. The document…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary, Textbooks, Turkish
Valencia Robles, Jeannette; Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2022
Learning a foreign language implies a lot more than learning grammar and vocabulary. Language learners should also acquire the necessary social and cultural skills that would allow them to interact within the context where the target language is expected to be used. As a result, EFL teachers face the challenge of selecting and explaining the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Cultural Awareness
Ethan M. Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate linguistic variation within ESL/EFL reading textbooks and between EAP reading textbooks and lower-division university textbooks. Specifically, within ESL/EFL reading textbooks, lexical, lexico-grammatical, and formulaic variation was measured within series of textbooks, across textbooks at the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Linguistics
Stuart Benson; Naheen Madarbakus-Ring – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021
The popularity of using textbooks in second language programs in universities around the world continues to grow. Textbooks support teachers in their teaching by providing accessible materials and clear instruction. In addition, learners are guided by familiar lesson frameworks (e.g., beginning, middle, end) to guide their independent study…
Descriptors: North American English, English for Academic Purposes, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content
Köksal, Dinçay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Although a number of studies have been conducted on the existence of cultural and linguistic hegemony in EFL course books, both global and local publishers, and authors intentionally or unintentionally seem to reflect specific cultures, norms, and ideologies more in the course books. Thus, the present study aims to explore the state of hegemonic…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
Bayraktar Balkir, Nalan – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2021
The fact that our world increasingly faces serious problems including poverty, wars, environmental destruction, climate change, pandemics, gender inequality, hunger, oppression and so on raises the question of the role of foreign language teaching profession in struggling to find solutions to those global issues. This understanding relates to an…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
Tavares, Nicole Judith – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Perusall, a web-based collaborative reading platform characterised by its social annotation functionalities, was introduced in a postgraduate teacher-training language-awareness course in Hong Kong during the shift to online teaching and learning brought about by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Tasks were designed on Perusall to engage the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Empowerment, Textbook Content, Content Analysis
Hatipoglu, Çiler; Daskin, Nilüfer Can – South African Journal of Education, 2020
In the study reported here we focus on proverbs in English Language Teaching (ELT) coursebooks and how the pithy structure and the "wisdom"-loaded content of proverbs can contribute to the development of foreign language learners' communicative competence as defined by Bachman (1990). We discuss how the most frequently used coursebooks…
Descriptors: Proverbs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Saeed, Kochar Ali; Sabir, Lanya Mohammed; Fatah, Bayar Swara – Arab World English Journal, 2021
This research aims to give a clear image of coursebook evaluation in the English department of Komar University of Science and Technology (KUST) in Iraqi Kurdistan. The focus of this paper is to show the advantages and disadvantages of six coursebooks that are used in the English department of KUST. For this purpose, the researchers conducted…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Departments, Universities, Teacher Attitudes
Diachkova, Yana; Sazhko, Lilia; Shevchenko, Liudmyla; Syzenko, Anastasiia – Arab World English Journal, 2021
In English for Specific Purposes, one of the challenges is to transform teaching and learning into a process, which focuses on the development of professional skills, enables students to become successful learners of the target language, and makes them more aware of the local and global environments. This paper aims to analyse key challenges that…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Global Approach
Tham, Pham Thi Hong; Cheng, Zhang Yan – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2019
In recent years, the expansion of relations with China has led to the increasing need for the use of employees knowing Chinese language. Today, Chinese language is not simply a necessary condition, but it also becomes a tool, an effective and powerful means to exchange and develop the Country. In the last 5 years, the number of students of Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Teacher Shortage
Sarigöz, Iskender Hakki – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2019
In ELT (English Language Teaching) departments, prospective teachers come across a wide range of methodological domains which are applied and theoretical. Most of the instructional patterns can be practiced in microteachings. Upon feedback, the mistakes can be corrected and the procedures reworked if required. Nevertheless, syllabus, which is the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Descriptions
Bland, Janice – Education and Society, 2020
This paper examines how student teachers and language learners might learn to question perspectives and develop critical literacy through critiquing of texts. Focusing on work in an in-service teacher education course, the discussion explores how to help English language learners to read text representations critically, in order to identify…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Teachers, Critical Literacy, Inservice Teacher Education
Gil, Kook-Hee; Marsden, Heather; Whong, Melinda – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article brings together an experimental study involving L2 knowledge of negation in English and an analysis of how English language textbooks treat negation, in order to consider whether textbook explanations of negation could better exploit linguistic insights into negation. We focus on the English negative polarity item any, whose…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Role
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