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Blake, Robert; Bellezza, Annamaria; Euba, Nikolaus; Kaiser, Mark – L2 Journal, 2018
This Instructors Perspectives' essay from Robert Blake initiates a discussion on publishing language textbooks. It is followed by responses from Annamaria Bellezza, Nikolaus Euba, and Mark Kaiser.
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, Textbook Publication, Publishing Industry
Goodarzi, Ahmad; Weisi, Hiwa; Yousofi, Nouroddin – Cogent Education, 2020
With the advent of numerous newly-published English course books, textbook evaluation has turned into a very critical area in English Language Teaching (ELT). This paper aims to evaluate the English textbooks being taught in Iranian Junior high school ("Prospect" series). In so doing, an evaluation questionnaire was distributed among 27…
Descriptors: Textbook Publication, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Textbook Preparation
Hall, James M.; Gaynor, Brian – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article reports on the design and implementation of an innovative primary EFL program in Myanmar. Begun in 2014, the program is part of the CREATE Project, a joint initiative between the Myanmar Ministry of Education and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project has involved the planning, designing and implementation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Curriculum Development
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
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
Rai, Laxmisha; Deng, Chunrao – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
With the frequent interaction between China and the world, glocalisation, the combination of globalisation and localisation, is an unavoidable trend. This paper argues that the association of local situation with global awareness is one of the ways to assimilate English for daily use in Chinese context. The fundamental idea is that the use of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Global Approach
Ubanako, Valentine Njende – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
With much regional variation in Cameroon English, language learning and teaching becomes very much affected in Cameroon. As the same users make use of the various forms of English as the changing circumstances require, it becomes more and more difficult for them to make clear distinctions between the varieties, and somehow all of these varieties…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Foreign Countries
Tao, Baiqiang – Online Submission, 2008
This paper explores methodologies of identifying and combating sexism in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) textbooks. The writer of this paper has found out there exists sexism or gender inequality in the Chinese high school EFL textbooks. The writer hopes that future EFL curriculum designers, EFL textbook writers, textbook censors in textbook…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Sex Fairness, Censorship
Stoller, Fredricka L.; Horn, Bradley; Grabe, William; Robinson, Marin S. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2006
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) professionals know that initial efforts to produce or adapt materials generally require evaluative review and revision. A review process that solicits feedback from teacher and student users is critical because materials writers often find it difficult to envision the problems others may have with their…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Textbook Preparation, Instructional Material Evaluation, Second Language Instruction
Burquest, Donald A.; Henry, Floreen Barger – 1988
The relationship of contextual background to comprehension of written texts is discussed with reference to instruction in English as a second language (ESL). A theory advanced by Kerry Stewart Robichaux proposes six possible relationships between a text and its cultural "frame." Applications of the six text-frame relationships to foreign…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Lackstrom, John E. – 1975
Undergraduate students of English for Science and Technology (EST) are confronted, in their English textbooks, with a variety of rhetorical forms intended to convey a variety of information, including specialized rhetorics of definition, classification, and argumentation. The rhetorical form of EST argumentation is the organization of written…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education, Induction, Logic
Nasr, Raja T., Ed.; And Others – 1982
A collection of works on the role of cultural identity in second language learning and teaching includes: "Linguas estrangeiras e ideologia" (Roberto Ballalai); "Cultural Identity and Bilinguality" (Josiane F. Hamers, Michel Blanc); "Foreign Language Teaching and Cultural Identity" (Lakshmie K. Cumaranatunge);…
Descriptors: African Culture, Bilingualism, Children, Comparative Education
Adamson, Bob; Lee, John C. K. – 1994
A discussion of the role of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) textbooks in Hong Kong schools is examined first in social and historical contexts and then within the framework of a newly revised public school curriculum. The textbook is first viewed from three perspectives: curricular (socio-political); instructional (as an educational tool); and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Educational Change