Using government secondary school English language textbooks from Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, we conducted a quantitative content analysis in order to identify gender stereotypes in school education. In total, 21 categories of exclusion and quality of representation were used to study gender stereotypes. Our analysis confirms a pro-male bias in textbooks: the aggregate female ...

Secondary students must master not only grammar and text organization, but also pragmatic competence in the target language order to achieve communication competence. The ability express meaning beyond rules is referred as Teachers should provide materials that are appropriate for both learning goals needs of students. This study aimed determine types textbooks teachers require. It was a mixed-...

This paper examines the history of English textbooks and challenges they are facing in current EFL contexts Japan mainland China. In these countries, textbooks, for all other subjects, can only be used classrooms following governmental evaluation approval. The main set criteria textbook is provided by national curriculum, which also serves as a guideline compiling textbooks; it illustrates purp...

The study aimed at evaluating the Palestinian EFL textbooks of secondary stage in terms standards for textbooks. In order to achieve objectives, descriptive analytical approach was adopted. sample included four scholastic year 2020/2021. evaluate textbooks, instrumentation a list (32) built. were listed under five domains (textbook introduction, textbook content, activities, assessment procedur...

Abstract This study aimed to investigate how English language teaching textbooks portrayed male and female social actors according to their social roles and gender identities. To examine the linguistic representation of male and female social actors and construction of gender identities in ELT textbooks, Top Notch series was selected. To do so, attempts were made to analyze the series in terms ...

<span>According to the "English Curriculum Reform for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition)" formulated by Ministry of People's Republic China, nature and orientation compulsory education are combined with emphasis on adjusting optimizing curriculum cultivate socialist builders successors comprehensive development moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic skills. This paper focuses problems ...

As an analytical type of approach, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) deals with the emphasis on social practice, identity, power, and ideology built through text and speech in socio-political and educational contexts. Having proposed a theoretical framework, it uncovered all discrepant ways through which power and societal practices are produced in written and spoken texts. Moreover, mingled wi...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) are developing branches of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) instruction in Iran. These branches have a marginal status in the tertiary education, and the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology’s high commission offers no clear guidance for selecting and developing basic academic instructional materials related...