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Yanhong Liu; Stephen May; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
China has had an ambivalent policy for the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) over much of its history. The explicit and implicit implementation of language policy has had a significant impact on the content of EFL textbooks and the ideologies underlying them. However, studies exploring such ideologies remain sensitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Olha Misechko; Tamara Lytniova – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
The present article is a result of historical investigation into the cultural aspects of English language education in secondary schools of Ukraine in the 1930s-1980s, when Ukraine was one of the republics of the former Soviet Union. The course books, the school curricula and the articles published in scientific journals during this period built…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Katie A. Bernstein; Lindsey Brown; Yalda M. Kaveh; Brandon Yuhas; Sepide Pazhouhi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language education policy in Arizona has been on a rollercoaster over the last five years. Between 2019 and 2024, the state shifted from strict English-only enforcement to loosening restrictions and encouraging dual language approaches, then back to strict English-only enforcement. In this forum piece, we use approaches from critical discourse…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Superintendents, English Only Movement
Dong Bae Lee – SAGE Open, 2023
This article examines how Chinese language textbooks, produced for ethnic Koreans by ethnic Koreans in China, portray environmental issues in China. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Visual Image Analysis (VIA) are used to investigate what environmental content is integrated and what ideologies these textbooks construct. Chinese language…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Hai Suk Kim; Dong Bae Lee – Cogent Education, 2023
This paper explores how Japan employed language education to justify Japanese imperial surveillance practices by examining the depiction of policemen and military police officers in Japanese language textbooks used by Korean primary students during the colonial period under Japanese rule. The analysis of the Japanese language textbooks used during…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
Waqar Ali Shah; Sumera Umrani; Asadullah Lashari – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
Using literature, more specifically poetry in English as F/L2 has grown over time. However, scholars disagree as to whether it makes any difference to language learning or what functions it serves. The purpose of this study is to examine what discourses poetry embodies, what identities it shapes, and whether it can confront dominant ideologies in…
Descriptors: Poetry, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Smith, Christopher – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and students are often pressured to use generic, globally published textbooks featuring 'inner-circle' social realities. While some studies look at specific instances of content that socially marginalizes their intended audiences, few attempt comprehensive examinations of the multimodal ensembles on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Social Justice
Ferguson, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Beginning in April 2020, the Japanese government continued its English education language policy reform by introducing foreign language instruction as an academic subject for Grade 5 and Grade 6 students. The purpose of this study was to investigate how stakeholders across the education system have contended with policy creation, policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Dustin J. Hemsath – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is a single-case study and employs a poststructural approach to discourse analysis to investigate how language ideologies of a world language (WL) preservice teacher develop. Prominent discourses about language teaching and learning in U.S. K-12 schools support monolingual ideologies (e.g., Rivers & Robinson, 2012). While…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Kim, Hai suk – Cogent Education, 2021
This paper investigates the differentiated educational ideologies projected during the Japanese colonial era by comparing the Japanese language textbooks used by Korean and Japanese primary students at that time. By comparing the texts and images in "Kokugotokuhon" (Japanese language textbooks for Korean students) and…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Policy, Content Analysis
Tehseem, Tazanfal; Bokhari, Zahra; Zulfiqar, Saba – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2020
This paper explores the dissemination of human rights through English language learning in Pakistan and builds on the knowledge that contributes to the development of democratic educational outcomes. Textbook discourses have long been the domain of critical linguistics; critical linguists understand textbook discourse primarily as a language in…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Meadows, Bryan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This study explores the interplay of nationalism and English Language Teaching (ELT) classroom practices, as reported in 11 interviews with ELT educators in various locations (e.g., United States, Serbia, France, and Saudi Arabia). The study approach is informed by theories of discursive nationalism which interpret nations and nationalized things…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Herath, Sreemali – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
This study critically examines the discursive reconstruction of ethnic hierarchies in English language textbooks used in public schools in post-conflict Sri Lanka. Set against a social and political backdrop of larger nation state-building and national reconciliation taking place in Sri Lanka after it ended a three-decade ethnic conflict, this…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Ethnic Groups, Conflict Resolution, Ideology
Tyler Barrett; Hiroshi Miyashita – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
Governments are challenged with pursuing macro-level interests for the good of the group, while also needing to accommodate and to acknowledge the needs and preferences of people at the micro-level. Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's (MEXT) "English Education Reform Plan corresponding to…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Weninger, Csilla – Classroom Discourse, 2020
This paper examines classroom discourse from English lessons that implemented a critical literacy unit focused on a contextualised social issue. Utilising the theoretical notion of frame, the analysis of classroom excerpts highlights how ideologies about English teaching and learning at times enter the discourse of the classes, not only overtly…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning