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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
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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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Iamsirirak, Ekamorn – rEFLections, 2022
Coursebooks exist all over in the world of education. They are generally used as one of the major course materials. To write a coursebook for a particular course is challenging. This study was purposively conducted to develop a English grammar coursebook for teachers to meet the needs of teacher students in English education programs. The study…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Syam, Andi Tenrisanna; Furwana, Dewi – Dinamika Ilmu, 2022
English for Islamic Studies is taught as the general subject in the State Islamic Institute of Palopo. Therefore, the researchers aimed to develop valid English materials for learners of the Islamic education study program. The researchers applied the 4-D model by Thiagarajan et al. It consists of four stages namely, defining, designing,…
Descriptors: Material Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alharbi, Aisha T. – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study looked into Saudi female English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers' perception of their motivational practices in the actual classroom in public and private schools. Forty (n=40) EFL teachers filled out a questionnaire consisting of forty-four motivational strategies that were based on a five-point Likert scale ranging from…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Köksa, Dinçay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2020
Language ideologies are the practices of culturally, socially, and historically shaped views, images, and attitudes toward language. The political characteristic of English is certainly a sort of cultural hegemony, embodying the use of the target language into experiences, interpretations, and reciprocally confirmed assumptions. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Textbooks
Barfield, Andrew, Ed.; Betts, Robert, Ed.; Cunningham, Joyce, Ed.; Dunn, Neil, Ed.; Katsura, Haruko, Ed.; Kobayashi, Kunihiko, Ed.; Padden, Nina, Ed.; Parry, Neil, Ed.; Watanabe, Mayumi, Ed. – 1999
This volume includes papers presented at the 1998 Japan Association for Language Teaching Conference. Section 1, "Voices of Experience," includes: "Towards More Use of English in Class by JTEs" (Midori Iwano); "Paperless Portfolios" (Tim Stewart); "Textbook Creation in Reverse Order for Chinese" (Chou Jine…
Descriptors: Action Research, Audiotape Recordings, Career Exploration, Chinese