High frequency words in English textbooks for Indonesian senior high schools

Pragmatic Representations in Iranian High School English Textbooks

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

the impact of musical texts on the text recall of young learners of english in isfahan junior high schools

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...

Deconstruction of Cultural, Racial and Gender Dominance in Iranian Senior High School EFL Textbooks

Course books play a crucial role in educational process and are believed to be the pivotal ingredient of language teaching. Every new textbook needs to be analyzed in order to reach its best. Hence this study aims to analyze three Iranian English course books to reveal how various cultures are shown via the course books characters’ race, nationality, gender, and intercultural communications. Th...

English as a Multicultural Language: Implications from a Study of Japan’s Junior High Schools’ English Language Textbooks

An Analysis of Scrap Learning Dimensions in Technical & Vocational Training (Work& Knowledge Branch) Senior High Schools

 Introduction: Undesirable teachings or curriculum prepare the ground for training unqualified people Among these, improving available curriculum are very significant. The present study aims to analyze scrap learning dimensions in technical and vocational training (work & knowledge branch) senior high schools. The study uses a qualitative approach.  Methodology: The present study was qualita...