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…

Needs analysis is essential for designing materials or textbooks, as it ensures that the content meets the specific needs and context of target learners. This research aims to explore the needs of doctoral students and stakeholders at a Buddhist university in Thailand to inform the design of an English textbook for doctoral students in listening…

This paper provides an analysis of interviews with seven faculty members who engaged in creating Open textbooks funded by government grants at a university in Canada in 2018. Using four values--access and equity, community and connection, agency and ownership, and risk and responsibility--identified by Sinkinson (2018), McAndrew (2018), and…

The need for collaboration between researchers and practitioners to address the research-practice gap is a long-debated topic in applied linguistics. Little is known, however, about how researchers and practitioners can collaboratively develop teaching materials, as a potential venue to narrow the gap. This study explored how two groups of…

The article narrates a personal journey of learning and unlearning the images in school textbooks, its uses potentials and challenges as experienced by the author. It reflects upon the experiences of the process of selection of these images within the context of political science as a discipline. These experiences have been formed over a decade…

The objective of textbook study is to create high-quality textbooks. Analysis was done using a praxeological-didactical analysis (PDA) method. PDA offers space to analyze curriculum materials, such as math textbooks, which are the outcome of human action in the anthropology of a specific nation's society. There are 10 types of tasks given in the…

Background/Context: Despite advances in the learning sciences, a persistent gap remains between research and practice. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: In this project, we develop and try out a new approach to education research and development in which researchers, designers/developers, and instructors collaborate to…

This study investigates e-textbook development for the course of intercultural communication of national image for English majors and learners in the context of integrating ideological and curriculum education in the Chinese mainland. Under the framework of Fairclough's three-dimensional discourse analysis and glocalization in intercultural…

Migration and asylum are the subjects of social studies education since these concepts are social phenomena. In this respect, it is important that the content of the social studies course properly covers the subjects of migration and asylum, and the social studies education is carried out under this scope. This study aimed to examine social…

Text classification and text gradation are important for language teachers. Profiling and readability studies examine textual and linguistic features that determine text difficulty. Arabic, as an under-resourced language, suffers from a lack of such studies which results in material developers and textbook writers relying on their intuitions and…

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…

Purpose: This study explores a novel approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks for elementary schools in China, specifically focusing on "Morality and Law." Design/Approach/Methods: Adopting Aristotle's "Poetics" as its theoretical perspective, this study illustrates and analyzes the mimetic approach used in compiling…

This study aims to develop multiple intelligence-based textbooks seventh grade junior high school students with material on equations and inequalities. It is hoped that the results of the development of this textbook can improve student learning outcomes, especially in the ability of mathematical representation. The population used was students of…

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…

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…