Although previous studies have highlighted the advantages of using e-books for learning, most have compared learning achieved with traditional textbooks with that achieved with e-books in a classroom situation. These studies focused on individual learning instead of on interactions among learners, learning behavior using ebooks after school, and parental observations of children using e-books f...

This content analysis study focused on three main purposes, including to analyse the High Frequency Words (HFWs) of Dolch’s list in reading texts from English textbooks Indonesian senior high schools, language features HFWs textbooks, and propose strategies that can be used teaching HFWs. The were grouped into types recount text, narrative descriptive text. further analysed using an online word...

Modern methodology has faced challenges in the field of developing primary school students’ awareness their own identity process learning foreign languages. Globalization put forward question how to advance intercultural competence among both students and educators. Cultural national is an essential component language teaching. The article aimed at revealing peculiarities communication hinged o...

Indigenization of English in many Asian ESL countries and partial learning of English in EFL countries are two major hindrances to Asian Englishes today. Although Englishes are growing day by day, we have not had any common ground on which we can compare our English with other English varieties. The authors of this article were organizing members of the Committee of Revising the JACET List of B...

abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...

Readability is one of the important factors for students to consider when choosing a text read. Based on self-built corpus Junior High School textbooks in China, this paper mainly investigates differences readability between reading texts junior high school English textbooks. From vocabulary, sentence, and comprehensive indicators, study makes quantitative statistics that affect textbook unders...