Current Trends in Critical Discourse Analyses of Textbooks: A Look at Selected Literature

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has increasingly served to examine the content of textbooks. Given momentum by critical social inquiry pertaining textbook content, this study looks at peer-reviewed literature drawn from three scholarly databases (JSTOR, ERIC, and SAGE; cross-referenced with searches on Google Scholar) that use for those investigations. Reviewing selected literature, asks: What are most represented approaches CDA used examining textbooks? contextual themes appear draw attention? In what fields examined textbooks situated? How do these emergent be connected? areas research lacking in collected literature? The findings illustrate that, while methods types diverse, lion’s share attention utility given foundational English language teaching. Further directions a perspective discussed.