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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
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Shiyu Xie – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aims to reveal the cognitive demands of senior high school English as a foreign language textbooks in China and their potential impact on students' thinking development. To achieve this, the study employed content analysis, using an analytical framework adapted from the revised Bloom's taxonomy, to examine the cognitive demands…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Hengwen Yang; Xiufeng Zhang – SAGE Open, 2024
This paper explores the understanding and application of epicene pronouns in English among Chinese EFL learners. Thirty-three Chinese college students took part in a questionnaire to gauge their perceptions and usage of English epicene pronouns. A content analysis of 10 English grammar textbooks was also undertaken to discover current vernacular…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
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Zuoteng Li; Jiayan Zeng; Benjamin H. Nam – SAGE Open, 2023
This article examines the multimodal native cultural content in two sets of English-language textbooks widely used in public junior high schools in China and Mongolia. A pre-existing analytical framework was adapted for this analysis. Through this adapted framework, this paper aims to analyze and compare the distribution of multimodal native…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Dong Bae Lee – SAGE Open, 2023
This article examines how Chinese language textbooks, produced for ethnic Koreans by ethnic Koreans in China, portray environmental issues in China. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Visual Image Analysis (VIA) are used to investigate what environmental content is integrated and what ideologies these textbooks construct. Chinese language…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Táboas-Pais, María Inés; Rey-Cao, Ana – SAGE Open, 2015
The purpose of this article is to examine the representation of race through images that are published in Spanish physical education textbooks for secondary schools and to offer an insight into students' beliefs related to racial stereotypes in physical education. The sample was composed of 2,583 images and 87 secondary school pupils. The analysis…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Racial Bias, Textbooks, Content Analysis
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Meihami, Hussein; Khanlarzadeh, Mobin – SAGE Open, 2015
This study is an attempt to explore the frequency of pragmatic content occurrence represented as three speech acts of requesting, refusing, and apologizing in global and local English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks. Three global elementary ELT textbooks, namely "Interchange, Top Notch," and "American English File" along with…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Clark, Ian – SAGE Open, 2016
Bias is communicated via the "hidden curriculum"--the vehicle for the unspoken academic, social, and cultural messages that are communicated to students while they are in school. Revealing the hidden curriculum in English language textbooks (ELTs) entails an analytical and holistic approach to the content of the text and images appearing…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rashidi, Nasser; Ghaedsharafi, Shiva – SAGE Open, 2015
The current study aims at identifying particular ways through which social actors are represented in Summit Series ELT textbooks. It examines cultural load in the textbooks within critical discourse analysis framework, in this case van Leeuwen's framework. Particularly, the study attempts to explore if values, norms, and roles are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks