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English Textbooks in Parallel‐Language Tertiary Education [PDF]

TESOL Quarterly, 2011
Tertiary education in many countries is increasingly bilingual, with English used in parallel with the national language, particularly as a reading language. This article describes the results of a survey of student attitudes toward, and reading practices regarding, English language textbooks. Over 1,000 students at three Swedish universities responded
Pecorari, D., Shaw, P., Irvine, Aileen, Malmstrom, H.   +3 more
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'It Depends on the Students Themselves': Independent Language Learning at an Indonesian State School [PDF]

, 2004
There is continuing interest in the notion of learner autonomy, both as an effective means and valid goal of a language learning curriculum. However, the concept is recognised as emanating from Western tertiary educational contexts and as open to ...
Lamb, M.
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Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

The Use of Digital English Textbooks: A Study on Comprehension and Language Production Abilities Among Young Learners

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching
The shift from traditional to digital textbooks in education brings both prospects and hurdles, especially in teaching English to young learners. Despite the widespread adoption of digital textbooks, their impact on students' language skills and teacher ...
Thea Karuni Respati, Bayu Hendro Wicaksono, Estu Widodo   +2 more
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The critical study of localized context in Iranian foreign languages’ textbooks [PDF]

فصلنامه نوآوری‌های آموزشی, 2016
Based on the critics about national and social identity which occurred after the globalization phenomenon, especially in foreign languages education and language planning, new issues like localized knowledge and localization have been developed ...
Zahrā Dāvarpanāh, Seyed Behnām Alavi Moghaddam, Bahāre Allāhdāne   +2 more
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‘It's all very well having a diverse curriculum, but if there is no curriculum, it can be as diverse as you like’: Precarity and decolonising in the neoliberal UK higher education system

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton, Barbara Adewumi, Laura R. Bailey, Jacob W. Moore, Lauren‐Marie Aba Amoah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS USED AT BANYUASIN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS: BASED ON CURRICULUM 2013

English Community Journal, 2018
The purposes of this research were to find out (a) to what extent the English textbooks used by the public senior high schools in Banyuasin matched the requirements of Curriculum 2013, (b) which textbooks met the objectives of TEFL based on Curriculum ...
Agus Wahyudi, Soni Mirizon, Rita Inderawati   +2 more
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SILVER LININGS TEXTBOOK: AN APPRAISAL OF 2013 CURRICULUM-BASED COMMERCIAL ENGLISH COURSE BOOKS FOR SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS [PDF]

, 2016
Textbook is an important element in language learning activities since it provides a set of guidelines, alternatives, and resources (Harmer, 2007:181).
Agung Paramitha Eka Putri, I Gusti
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Stop Release in Polish English — Implications for Prosodic Constituency [PDF]

, 2014
Although there is little consensus on the relevance of non-contrastive allophonic processes in L2 speech acquisition, EFL pronunciation textbooks cover the suppression of stop release in coda position.
Anna Balas, Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Arsenault, Arsenault, Bergier, Bergier, Best, Best, Best, Best, Boersma, Boersma, Bogacka, Bogacka, Cook, Cook, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Dukiewicz, Dukiewicz, Flege, Flege, Geoffrey Schwartz, Jenkins, Jenkins, Kahn, Kahn, Kang, Kang, Kang, Kang, Lindblom, Lindblom, Rojczyk, Rojczyk, Schwartz, Schwartz, Steriade, Steriade, Wright, Wright   +40 more
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Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source