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Learning About the European Union in Times of Crisis: Portuguese Textbooks’ Normative Visions of European Citizenship

open access: yesJournal of Social Science Education, 2018
Purpose: To investigate how EU related contents are represented in Portuguese upper secondary school textbooks of History and English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
Filipe Piedade   +4 more
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Learning activities in the context of Primary School EFL textbooks

open access: yesCuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2019
Attaining the necessary fluency in the oral and written skills is one of the fundamental goals that EFL students need to pursue. Different activities in textbooks can have different explicit and implicit teaching loads depending on the type of knowledge ...
Joaquín Gris Roca
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Ideological and Hegemonic Practices in Global and Local EFL Textbooks Written for Turks and Persians

open access: yesActa Educationis Generalis, 2019
Introduction: Studies on the relationship between ideology, hegemony and textbooks in applied linguistics have been incremental in recent decades because emergence of critical theory, critical pedagogy, and critical thinking skills from the 1920s on has ...
Ulum Ömer Gökhan, Köksal Dinçay
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Confronting Subtle Sexism in An Indonesian EFL Textbook

open access: yesELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2020
Language is a powerful tool to communicate ideologies and build a society. Through language, we can see what kind of society we are living in; and apparently, we are living in a society where sexism flourishes without us realizing it. This type of sexism
Ana Humardhiana, Yayah Nurhidayah
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Modal verbs in Indonesian and Malaysian English textbooks for secondary schools: A corpus-driven study

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education
Modality is a salient notion in language, manifested through modal verbs. However, modal verbs are complex grammatical units since they have multiple functions and meanings.
Ikmi Nur Oktavianti   +5 more
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GENDER INEQUALITY REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

open access: yesJurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora, 2021
Ideologies are contested through discourses; thus, textbooks can be a fertile ground for implanting the prevalence of women's marginalization in society, or they can also be used for deconstructing the ideology.
Luh Shanti Nilayam Mihira   +4 more
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CULTURAL TERMS IN EFL TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

open access: yesEncuentro Journal, 2021
This paper analyses the Festival/Cultural section of the four most used 6th Primary EFL textbooks in La Rioja (North of Spain) to examine whether (i) festivals is a topic covered in the syllabi of these four materials, (ii) the topics and terms refer to British and American celebrations, represent festivals in other English-speaking communities or ...
Canga Alonso, Andrés   +1 more
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Register variation in school EFL textbooks

open access: yesRegister Studies, 2021
Abstract This study applies additive Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) (Biber 1988) to explore the linguistic characteristics of ‘school English’ or ‘textbook English’. It seeks to find out how text registers commonly featured in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks differ from comparable registers found outside the EFL classroom.
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EFL Teachers' Perceptions towards Textbook Evaluation

open access: yesTheory and Practice in Language Studies, 2016
Textbook evaluation helps the teachers find appropriate course books and let them regulate and modify them to meet the learners' needs and also allow for natural interaction to occur. The skilled teachers have the opportunity to report and reflect their perceptions on the usefulness and weakness of the textbook they use in a given class. Although there
Azam Ahmadi, Ali Derakhshan
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Opportunities for Anti-Bias Frameworks in Japanese EFL Textbooks

open access: yesBabylonia, 2021
In Japan, recent Foreign Language Activities (2018-2020) policies have explicated the importance of facilitating multiculturalism and global thinking through education and educational tools, including through the use of textbooks.
Kate Efron
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