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Ethan Trinh; Gertrude Tinker Sachs – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
Queer is an inclusive term that embraces Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+), among other sexual identities. Thinking queer examines how fixed meanings or knowledge, or a particular image or identity, can be challenged, unfixed, unlearned, inquired, and placed into new learnings and understandings. In this paper, we think queer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Textbooks
Yanhong Liu; Lin An; Shan Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
Environmental issue is one of the public concerns pertaining to human welfare. English language education is supposed to take its part to contribute to the sustainable development. In this study, a corpus comprising 12 series of English language textbooks used in Chinese universities (48 volumes/books) was constructed to examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Febi Suwandani; Sari Hidayati – Dinamika Ilmu, 2025
This study investigated the types of culture presented in EFL school textbooks in Indonesia. Qualitative content analysis and the Kress & van Leeuwen's conceptual representation framework were employed to analyze the data in two textbooks widely used at the Junior high school level. The findings show that both textbooks portray a rather…
Descriptors: Culture, Textbook Content, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Mishan, Freda – Language Teaching, 2022
English language teaching (ELT) publishing as we know it today has a long and lucrative history, dating, according to Rix (2008), from the Longman publication of Michael West's "New Method Readers" in 1926, to the present day, where annual turnover runs to around US$194 billion (Jordan & Gray, 2019). Some of the sector's…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Publications, Textbooks
Jehad Faraj; Andrea Roxana Bellot; Anca Daniela Frumuselu – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2024
This study examines international and intercultural issues in the English for Palestine textbook series, specifically evaluating intercultural comparisons, mutual representations, and relations in terms of their effectiveness in enhancing students' cross-cultural communication skills. The examination of the textbooks employed a qualitative…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ryan Klinger – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
Studies relating to the vocabulary items within EFL textbooks have revealed a divergence from well-researched wordlists such as the New General Service List (NGSL) (Browne et al., 2013), and the BNC/COCA wordlist (Nakayama, 2022; Sun and Dang, 2020). In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) recently…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Frequency, Junior High Schools, English (Second Language)
Lexi Xiaoduo Li – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The research aims to enhance the handling of modal verbs (MVs) in EFL textbooks by leveraging perspectives from corpora that include both native speakers' language data and the language data of individuals who are learning the language. To assess the authenticity of language in textbooks, an analysis between the native corpus and a collection of…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Design, Native Speakers
Valencia Robles, Jeannette; Garcia Laborda, Jesus – Online Submission, 2022
Learning a foreign language implies a lot more than learning grammar and vocabulary. Language learners should also acquire the necessary social and cultural skills that would allow them to interact within the context where the target language is expected to be used. As a result, EFL teachers face the challenge of selecting and explaining the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Cultural Awareness
Noor Iylia Abu Bakar; Hanita Hanim Ismail – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The adption of the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) as a guideline in Malaysian English language education has led the Ministry of Education to replace locally-developed English textbooks with a selection of imported titles. While considering the significance of intercultural skills in the English curriculum, there is a need to look into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change
Ethan M. Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate linguistic variation within ESL/EFL reading textbooks and between EAP reading textbooks and lower-division university textbooks. Specifically, within ESL/EFL reading textbooks, lexical, lexico-grammatical, and formulaic variation was measured within series of textbooks, across textbooks at the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Linguistics
Baleghizadeh, Sasan; Amiri Shayesteh, Leyli – Cogent Education, 2020
The global use of the English language in various international contexts complicates the role of culture in teaching English as an international language. Drawing on a well-known framework of cultural representation consisting of four categories of "products," "practices," "perspectives," and "persons," this…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Textbook Content, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
Köksal, Dinçay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
Although a number of studies have been conducted on the existence of cultural and linguistic hegemony in EFL course books, both global and local publishers, and authors intentionally or unintentionally seem to reflect specific cultures, norms, and ideologies more in the course books. Thus, the present study aims to explore the state of hegemonic…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
Bhutto, Farhan Ali; Syed, Hassan; Rajput, Abdul Saeed; Shah, Syed Tanweer; Chachar, Zulfiqar – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2022
The current study aimed to evaluate two different sets of secondary level English textbooks: "Exploring English" used in private schools under the Agha Khan Examination board and "Secondary Stage English" textbooks used in government schools of Sindh province in Pakistan. This study investigated whether these textbooks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Public Schools, Alignment (Education)
Solhi, Mehdi; Mert, Yaren Zehra; Çelen, Zeliha; Kisa, Rabia – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
In this pre-use evaluation study, the long-term effectiveness of the contents of the English language coursebooks provided by the Ministry of Turkish National Education for high school students (i.e., 9th to 12th graders) in Turkey were evaluated, exploiting Tomlinson and Masuhara's (2013) fifteen universal coursebook evaluation criteria. In so…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
Kalfut, Thamer – English Language Teaching, 2021
A sense of audience is important in the development of student writing (Many & Henderson, 2005). Research shows students need to consider an audience's attitudes, beliefs, and expectations to be effective writers (Midgette, Haria, & MacArthur, 2007). Therefore, students need learning opportunities in L2 classrooms to develop this ability.…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation