As a preliminary step towards conducting a teacher survey on pronunciation teaching in order to design a phonetics course for current and prospective English teachers in Japan, this paper analyses six governmentapproved English textbooks used in junior high schools. The purposes are to examine the types of pronunciation activities in the textbooks and to discuss the knowledge of phonetics requi...

Two reasons may be responsible for the poor grasp of the linguistic concepts related to literacy acquisition by preservice and in-service teachers: a lack of attention given to such concepts by teacher educators (college faculty members) and a lack of relevant information provided in the textbooks used in college courses. In an earlier study, the authors found that many teacher educators involv...

Background: This research sought to determine how well the causes of addiction, addiction harms, and prevention of addiction have been noticed in high school textbooks.Methods: We used descriptive method to select the main related components of the addiction concept and content analysis method for analyzing the content of textbooks. The study population comprised 61 secondary school curriculum ...

Content Analysis of Elementary School Textbooks in Terms of Covering Renewable Energy Sources     E. Saalehi Omraan, Ph.D.* M. Aabedini Beltork, Ph.D.** G. Mehralitabaar Firoozjaa’i***   The world is facing an energy crisis brought about by the ever increasing consumption of fossil fuels that leads to pollution and health problems. The renewable clean energies must b...

OBJECTIVE to assess the evolution of attitudes and practices relating to perinatal loss through an analysis of British midwifery textbooks. DESIGN a literature review of midwifery textbooks, written or edited by midwives, published in the UK after 1902, and a critical analysis of textbooks to determine the ideological and professional standpoints presented to readers. FINDINGS the rhetoric ...

Language is embedded in society and culture, and for that matter, learning a foreign language involves learning its culture. This paper is concerned with the inseparability of culture and language in foreign language teaching, arguing that culture introduction is an effective way to promote students’ cultural awareness and language proficiency. Foreign language textbooks are major channels for ...

Textbooks introduce students to a discipline’s methods and goals. In combination with the desire of publishers to have up-to-date products, each textbook should, hypothetically, reflect the state of the art in a discipline at the time of its publication. Two series of multi-edition textbooks authored by the same individuals confirm the hypothesis for American archaeology that textbooks reflect ...

New WWW technologies allow for integrating distance education power of WWW with interactivity and intelligence. Integrating on-line presentation of learning materials with the interactivity of problem solving environments and the intelligence of intelligent tutoring systems results in a new quality of learning materials that we call 13_ textbooks. In this paper, we describe the development of E...

The process of writing textbooks is still very traditional regarding the status of authorship and expert opinions. Recently we observe the emergence of authors who follow a different approach, taping the wisdom of crowds as key resource of their own publications. In this paper, we explore business model innovation which leverages value propositions of textbooks by applying crowdsourcing. We use...