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Dawn Atkinson – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Retrospective accounts of materials development in the applied linguistics literature speak to the relationship between creativity and textbook writing, but this study forges another path by examining how an expert ELT (English language teaching) textbook writer deploys creativity during ongoing coursebook production. Qualitative content analysis…
Descriptors: Specialists, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hong Zhang; Xiaonan Li; Wenzhe Chang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the representation of cultures across three sets of national English textbooks currently used in China by conducting a synchronic content analysis to explore what and how cultures are represented in the textbooks. Data analysis was conducted based on a newly constructed framework focusing on the content (countries and…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Cultural Awareness, Asian Culture, Textbooks
Aigul Syzdykbayeva; Kulpynay Duisenbay; Guliya Alikhankyzy; Ulzharkyn Abdigapbarova – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
There has been a significant growth in the field of Chinese language education, which has necessitated to examine the current state of key research contributions of the Chinese language in teaching methodologies, learning processes, and textbook development. This bibliometric study maps literature on Chinese language teaching, learning, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bibliometrics
Jing Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article explores how leading textbook authors select and instruct vocabulary in beginner and intermediate Chinese textbooks used in the United States. Leading textbook authors were approached; subsequently; four authors completed interviews with pre-designed questions. Grounded theory methodology was used to analyse the interviews, and their…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Authors, Grammar, Word Frequency
Dawn Atkinson; Stacey Corbitt – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Despite coverage of materials development principles in the applied linguistics literature, principled production of open textbooks has not received attention. To address this gap and demonstrate the interdisciplinary potential of materials development research, the authors drew upon concurrent verbalization and interview data they collected while…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction
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
Atkinson, Dawn – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
Although the ELT (English Language Teaching) materials development literature points to the influence of classroom experience on materials design, the literature is less specific about "how" such experience affects skilled textbook writing. Drawing primarily upon concurrent verbalization and pre- and post-concurrent verbalization…
Descriptors: Expertise, Authors, Textbook Preparation, Second Language Learning
Bugler, Jeremy – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
Author talked to Louis Alexander, a best-selling English author virtually unknown in his own country. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Authors, Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Content, Educational Objectives