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Vitta, Joseph P. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Decades of research have established that most English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts rely on textbooks and corresponding materials to drive the education process. Textbook analysis as a vital quality control check of these products has also become a popular trend in applied linguistics and "second language" (L2) research. In the main,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Dengler, Rebecca – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
English language learners should become successful intercultural speakers and global citizens promoting qualities that go beyond national boundaries. Supposed to be globally appropriate, global course books from Global North publishing houses reproduce coloniality and are neither neutral nor free of nationalism. Local(ised) teaching materials…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Colonialism, Decolonization, Second Language Learning
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Eliana Maritza Alarcón Camacho – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the analysis performed on the way in which grammar is presented in an English coursebook created by the Ministry of Education of Colombia (MEN) to provide contextualized material to learners in public school settings. The evaluation criteria to evaluate the grammar were developed considering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ye, Chao; Zhu, Xiaodan; Lieske, Scott N. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Emotion is important in teaching and research but are rarely the focus of geographic scholarship. This article aims to bridge the gap between teaching geographic thought and teaching that considers emotion based on the case of a university class in China. Class sessions, supported with an English language textbook, were connected with different…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Jordan, Geoff; Gray, Humphrey – ELT Journal, 2019
General English coursebooks have dominated classroom-based ELT for 40?years. Their legitimacy seems unchallengeable; we can hardly remember a time when things were different, or imagine a time when coursebooks will not be used. And yet, coursebooks make assumptions about language learning that are contradicted by robust SLA research findings; they…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Textbooks
Burton, Graham – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book investigates the content of the grammar syllabus typically employed in mainstream English Language Teaching. Using a mixed-methods approach, the author examines how the syllabuses used in coursebooks are actually constructed, how they evolved and how valid their contents are as a basis for teaching. The research reported consists of a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
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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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Weninger, Csilla – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
Increasingly, studies are taking account of multimodality when analyzing language textbooks. Due to the diversity of multimodal frameworks used in analyses, and the interdisciplinary nature of language textbook studies, conceptual differences arise that are important to discuss -- which is the purpose of this paper. Specifically, I argue that…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Cárcamo Morales, Benjamín – TESOL Journal, 2020
This article evaluates the mandatory English as a foreign language textbooks provided by the government in Chile in terms of readability and types of questions. Three readability formulas are used to analyze the texts: Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and Coh-Metrix L2 reading index (RDL2). To evaluate the cognitive demands that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Tórrez, Nahúm Misael; Lund, Ragnhild Elisabeth – ELT Journal, 2021
Nicaragua published its first series of textbooks for the teaching of English in public secondary schools in 2016. This article reports on an investigation of the first three textbooks belonging to this series. The aim was to see how the textbooks follow up the Nicaraguan national curriculum, which emphasizes the need for learners to develop…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chan, Hang – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2021
The current study considers the notion that English textbooks produced for different markets are likely to manifest different pedagogical emphases. The study begins the research context by contemplating possible similarities and differences between English textbooks produced in two neighbouring markets, Hong Kong (HK) and the People's Republic of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phrase Structure
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Harwood, Nigel – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2017
Although there is an ever-growing volume of research focused on TESOL textbooks (or coursebooks, as they are sometimes known), I argue that the TESOL research community should pay more attention to textbook research in mainstream education, that is, to the work of those scholars who focus on L1 rather than L2 education, given that there is a rich,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Alsulami, Yusuf Ahmad K. – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper evaluates a textbook called "Traveller 4" that is used in the second grade of secondary schools in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, considering its general appearance and design, objectives, content, social and cultural contexts, tasks and activities, and usefulness for developing language skills. The paper also reviews the…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Abid, Nadia; Moalla, Asma – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
This paper evaluates the potential of intercultural contacts portrayed in the content and tasks of a Tunisian EFL textbook for third-year secondary school students to develop the model of the intercultural speaker. The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the elements of intercultural contacts reveal that this portrayal is imbalanced in terms…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods, Textbooks
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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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