This critical qualitative inquiry sought to examine and understand how academic authors as curriculum implementors and media producers incorporated Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous media in the design and development of textbook tasks for media and information literacy instructional materials. This is based on the fundamental assumption that a…

This study reports on the analysis of a widely used "General English" textbook to explore the relationship between lexical bundles included in the text and lexical bundles identified in relevant corpora to determine the appropriateness of the text's vocabulary in relation to its stated objective. Appropriateness is examined through the…

Drawn from a symposium presented at the 1979 National Reading Conference, the four papers in this collection describe a notion of conceptual readability, an approach contrasting with traditional readability computations (number of words per sentence and degree of familiarity of individual words) and focusing on the concepts communicated by the…