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Anni Holila Pulungan; Adib Jasni Kharisma; Joko Kusmanto; Pirman Ginting – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Integrating outcome-based elements like advanced communication, productivity and accountability, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, flexibility, and adaptability is considered vital in a textbook. However, evidence has shown gaps in specific areas of textbooks, as illustrated by the "Bahasa Inggris Grade XII" textbook, which…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Nu Anh Vo; Trung Nguyen Tran – TESOL Journal, 2025
This study examines coursebooks used to teach English to undergraduate students majoring in English at a public university in Vietnam. The aim is to evaluate the extent to which the coursebooks prepare students for future use of English as an international language. This is in response to a call made by key scholars, including those in Vietnam,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Second Language Instruction
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Md. Munibur Rahman; Marium Jamila; Md. Abdullah Al Mamun – Asian Journal of Contemporary Education, 2024
This study aimed to critically evaluate the effectiveness and suitability of the textbook "English for Today" designed to instill English language skills and communicative competence into Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) level students in Bangladesh. To carry out the research, a mixed methods approach was followed. The researchers used…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Skills
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Chili Li; Xue Wang; Long Qian – SAGE Open, 2025
The effectiveness of English Language Teaching (ELT) materials significantly influences the learning outcomes of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, positioning these resources as cardinal in the acquisition process. Despite this widely acknowledged significance, there remains a notable gap in research concerning the evaluation of key…
Descriptors: Syntax, Difficulty Level, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sukarno – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2024
Coursebooks have become the most prominent English learning materials, especially in formal education. Therefore, recursive evaluation should be conducted to adjust the coursebook based on the current needs and learning goals. Moreover, dynamic evaluation brings interaction or mediation with a genuine act of teaching to make the evaluation more…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbook Evaluation
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Lucas Peltonen; Guangwei Hu – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2025
Internationally operating professionals in China study business English to develop their language proficiency and transcultural communicative competence. While a variety of business English textbooks are on the market and are used in China, their conceptualizations of culture tend to be nation-based, static, and predictable -- views of culture…
Descriptors: Business English, Business Communication, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
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Laleh Khojasteh; Jayakaran Mukundan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
This systematic review explores the evolution and impact of corpus-based methodologies in textbook analysis within the field of language education between 2010 and 2024. Utilizing the PRISMA framework, 29 studies were identified and analyzed, highlighting the transition from basic frequency analyses to sophisticated examinations of lexical,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Semantics
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Musa Nushi; Alireza Aghaei – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
Culture is an inseparable part of English Language Teaching (ELT), and ELT textbooks, as one of the main instructional resources are bound to include cultural and linguistic content. However, the kind of cultural content in these books has been a controversial issue for decades. It is recommended that curriculum designers use intercultural…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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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Ali Derakhshan – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Studies examining culture representation in language textbooks have rarely adopted the semiotic approach, despite its potential for presenting and (re)creating cultural meanings at their various levels (i.e. cultural, intercultural, multicultural, and transcultural) in the co-instantiations of texts, tasks, and images. To address this issue, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Dawn Atkinson – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Though reports of pedagogic materials production point to the range of compromises authors make when writing language teaching textbooks, many accounts are retrospective in nature. This study sought to expand the research perspective by interrogating writing episodes via qualitative content analysis to discover how two expert ELT (English language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbook Preparation
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Lucy Sibanda; Tracey Herman – South African Journal of Education, 2024
Textbooks socialise and legitimise cultural norms, and therefore, learners' social worlds should find expression in their textbooks. In the study reported on here we examined how Grade 4 English First Additional Language and life skills textbooks reflected learner diversity in South African schools as manifested in their racial, gender,…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Diversity, Content Analysis, Grade 4