this study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used elt textbooks, three british and three american. applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (cda), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. results suggest that in terms of content, british textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

Language and culture are now deemed to be co-constitutive; hence English language teaching (ELT) textbooks should incorporate cultural aspects and promote intercultural competence. However, careful decisions should be made as regards to the cultural content of materials and the ways in which culture is represented. This study was an attempt to deconstruct the patterns of cultural representation...

Background: ISLE project aims Project ISLE (Interactive Spoken Language Education) aimed to exploit available speech recognition technology to improve the performance of computerbased English language learning systems, specifically for adult German and Italian learners of English. The English language teaching industry is showing increasing interest in and awareness of the relevance and potenti...

this study evaluated 2 elt textbooks (four corners, book 2 and four cornersbook 3) drawing on bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt); it examined the extent towhich these elt textbooks could demonstrate the 6 cognitive categories of the brt(i.e., remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating) intheir activities. to this end, content analysis was done to obtain the frequency ...

The aims of this study is to investigate the experiences 12 Makassar University lecturers in planning and writing their English language teaching (ELT) textbooks. results interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) revealed that, despite a number pedagogical issues challenges, these had positive attitude toward ELT textbooks, as by an in-depth semi-structured individual interview (IDI) focus...

In this paper, I shall discuss issues regarding globalization and culture in the context of English language teaching (ELT), with a particular focus on Chinese ELT materials in secondary schools in China. Globalization has a far-reaching impact on the foreign language education industry in China. Chinese learners of English view globalization positively as opportunities for geographical and soc...