To analyze and evaluate textbooks, researchers have either proposed scales and checklists to be filled by teachers and learners or conducted qualitative investigations of the match between SLA theories and textbook activities. This study, however, employs the microstructural approach of schema theory to scrutinize the reading passages of “Mosaic 1 Reading”. To this end, 17 passages of the textb...

Using Critical Discourse Analysis as an analysis tool, this study explores gender representation in the national EFL textbook “Bright: An English” for Eighth Grade Junior High School students, a book utilized Al-Ikhlas Lambuya School’s learning and teaching process. Fairclough's three-dimensional framework was used to examine data study. The aims see how roles are communicated equity is reflect...

The social semiotic analysis in this study aims to (1) reveal what multicultural values are found ELT textbooks for ninth-grade learners, (2) explain how the texts and images analyzed present values, (3) uncover semiotics dimensions can decode values. This finds that among four discovered textbooks, responsibility world community has most frequent appearance while respect human dignity universa...

Higher-order thinking skills become the target for learning outcomes in current curriculum. The integration of those levels must be included textbook. English textbook is a kind media students and teachers doing process. A qualified book should provide HOTS instructions to achieve curriculum’s goal. This study aims analyze use reading questions fiction texts find most dominant used. was descrip...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the use of children’s literature and DVD films on EFL adult language learning. A total of 89 non-English majors enrolled in two Freshman English classes participated in the study. The study employed a quasi-experimental, pretest/posttest comparison group design. The participants in the experimental group were exposed to the children’s l...

This paper proposes a problem-based digital textbook (DT) by defining an instructional model of problem-based learning (PBL) for DTs. The objective was to develop a DT that stimulates self-directed learning through the support of a wide range of student-centered learning activities to enhance the overall learning experience and effectiveness. As an application, a problem-based DT that performs ...

Culture is an inseparable aspect when individual learns a target language. English textbook, one of the teaching-learning media, keeps lot hidden cultural value inside. There limited study investigating representation values in textbook for autism students. Thus, this addressed to investigate both and inside Indonesian EFL published by Ministry Education Culture. The analysis adopted four dimen...