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Behiye Arabacioglu; Sengül Balkaya – African Educational Research Journal, 2023
Textbooks play an undeniable role in education and training. The selection of textbooks, which are crucial materials for both teachers and learners in the teaching-learning process, requires careful consideration of specific criteria. Textbooks wield an effect on intrinsic motivation factors like interest, desire, and curiosity. They also impact…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Selection, Second Language Learning
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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
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Solhi, Mehdi; Mert, Yaren Zehra; Çelen, Zeliha; Kisa, Rabia – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
In this pre-use evaluation study, the long-term effectiveness of the contents of the English language coursebooks provided by the Ministry of Turkish National Education for high school students (i.e., 9th to 12th graders) in Turkey were evaluated, exploiting Tomlinson and Masuhara's (2013) fifteen universal coursebook evaluation criteria. In so…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
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Bal, Oguz; Sahin, Harun – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2021
In this paper, the writing sections in Primary School English Coursebooks were reviewed to determine the creative writing activities and content analysis method was used in the context of document review. In this process, the coursebooks published by Ministry of National Education Publications and private publishing houses were both selected from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Textbook Content, Textbooks, Creative Writing
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Can, Fatih – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
Textbooks, which have a very important place in educational activities, are also a widely used material in teaching Turkish to foreigners. Therefore, the texts in these textbooks play an effective role in learning. For this reason, it is very important to determine the readability levels of Turkish teaching textbooks for foreigners. The aim of…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Readability
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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)
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Yastibas, Ahmet Erdost – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2021
Every student is different, has his own strengths and weaknesses, and learns in his own ways. Some of them have diverse learning needs due to several reasons such as disabilities, gender and race. This makes inclusive education significant because it values all students with their differences and aims to provide them with what they need to…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Social Values, Values Education, English (Second Language)
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Iscan, Adem; Baskin, Sami – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
Foreign language teaching is not only the teaching of the grammar and vocabulary and the acquisition of basic language skills of the target language, but it is also the teaching of the culture of the target language. Because foreign language always brings it with a foreign culture. It is extremely important that individuals learn the cultural…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Atar, Cihat – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
The Processability Theory suggests that teachability and learn ability of a language is constrained by what learners are ready to acquire. This means that what is presented to the learners should be in line with their level and readiness. Textbooks are one of the fundamental resources of language learning and teaching, and in this sense, analyzing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Learning Readiness
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Tas, Tunay; Khan, Özlem – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
This study aims to investigate whether there is a discrepancy between local coursebooks and international coursebooks in terms of the extent to which they comply with the model of communicative competence depicted in the Turkish foreign language curriculum. Speaking activities in two selected 9th grade English language coursebooks were classified…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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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)
Cesur, Kürsat; Özi?sler, Narin – Online Submission, 2019
Undoubtedly, foreign language teaching intends to make students obtain the required competence so as to get the linguistic knowledge needed in a foreign language. With this respect, a textbook should supply to the users as much as possible, be satisfactory to fit into the syllabus, and meet all the needs and expectations of the students during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Agcihan, Ezgi; Gokce, Asiye Toker – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Textbooks might be one of the main resources of teachers even today however there have been many changes in education media and Technologies. Especially language course books used in foreign language teaching can be the basic source of learning when the target language is not spoken in the country where the language is thought. Thus, it can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Foreign Language Books, Second Language Learning
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Handan Çelik; Bedrettin Yazan – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Reconsideration of culture pedagogy, in terms of what culture refers to and whose culture dominates English language teaching is a prevalent issue in language teaching. Therefore, in this study, we conducted one-on-one interviews with 17 in-service teachers of English language at three private K-12 schools in a northwestern city of Turkey to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ahmet Acar – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
In this paper, I propose a model of plurimethodological approach in ELT textbook design, in which one unit is based on the communicative PPP unit model, where the unit ends with a final communicative task, and the following unit is based on the action-oriented unit model, where the unit is a mini-project unit as a whole. Such a textbook model is…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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