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The English pronunciation teaching in Europe survey: selected results [PDF]

, 2012
The results of EPTiES reveal interesting phenomena across Europe, despite shortcomings in terms of construction and distribution. For example, most respondents are non-native speakers of English and the majority of them rate their own mastery of English ...
Cunnigham, Una, Cunningham, Una, Curnick, Lesley, Frost, Dan, Henderson, Alice, Kautzsch, Alexander, Kirkova-Naskova, Anastazija, Levey, David, Murphy, Deirdre, Tergujeff, Elina, Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa   +10 more
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The text, dead or alive: Expanding textual repertoires in the adult ESOL classroom [PDF]

, 2006
The paper explores the manner in which written texts are selected and used in the adult ESOL classroom. Taking a sociocultural view of the reading process and of the nature of text, it argues that ESOL students have potentially rich textual resources ...
Wallace, Catherine
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Ideological and Hegemonic Practices in Global and Local EFL Textbooks Written for Turks and Persians

Acta 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

ELT 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

Studies 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, Noor Raha Mohd Radzuan, Bambang Widi Pratolo, Surono Surono, Tri Rina Budiwati, Shifak Aisyah   +5 more
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CULTURAL TERMS IN EFL TEXTBOOKS FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

Encuentro 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, Cifone Ponte, María Daniela   +1 more
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GENDER INEQUALITY REPRESENTED IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Jurnal 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, Ni Komang Arie Suwastini, Ni Nyoman Artini, I Gusti Agung Sri Rwa Jayantini, I Wayan Budiarta   +4 more
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Register variation in school EFL textbooks

Register 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

Theory 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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Analysing the speech act of refusing in the TV show Grey’s Anatomy [PDF]

, 2016
XXI Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2016)Appropriate refusal interactions may be a difficult task for learners of English in a foreign context since they tend to apply the pragmatic rules of their ...
Nieto Bernat, Davinia María
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