A number of studies on the cultural content represented in local or global textbooks have increasingly been investigated. However, it is scanty research comparing and textbooks. This study aims to examine two determined by Indonesian Ministry Education Culture, a textbook entitled English Mind for schools implementing new curriculum called Merdeka textbook, When Rings Bell, that not applied it....

Textbooks are an important source of knowledge input on which the transmission academic often relies, especially in early stages learning. Adopting a corpus-based approach, this study evaluates text difficulty science textbooks used secondary English-medium instruction schools Hong Kong, with focus their lexical coverage and readability. It compares English language that as foreign textbooks. T...

This article addresses the issue of the English-only movement in the United States public schools, specifically the Structured English Immersion (SEI) methodology. It discusses the controversy surrounding bilingual education by reviewing theoretical and empirical research about the implementation of SEI. The article articulates that SEI is an appropriate alternative to other bilingual instructi...

The Effectiveness of Religious Teachings Presented in the “Religion and Life” Textbook of the 2nd Grade of High School from Students’ Point of View I. Motaghizadeh, Ph.D. H.  Yaghoubi, M.A. The present research aimed to examine the effectiveness of religious teachings presented in the “Religion and Life” Textbook of the 2nd grade of high scho...

Training of a social actor as new goal set by the CEFR necessitates transition from communicative approach to action-oriented approach, training successful communicators actors. Communicative textbooks, mostly, employ situations communication (e.g. simulations, role-plays) at end units, whose function is allow learners reuse language content unit or enable them make free production. A textbook ...