The promotion of language learner autonomy has become a standard policy ratified by many education curricula. Textbooks, one the key tools for curriculum implementation, have crucial role in bringing aspiration into classroom practice. This study aims to evaluate how existing English textbooks used Indonesia’s secondary schools support development autonomy, which is incorporated current curricu...

The present article arises from a three-year cross sectional investigation into English Language Teaching (ELT) in secondary schools in Iran and the role of Communicative Pedagogy within this. The study has examined the extent of communicative pedagogy within the Iranian national ELT curriculum, the ELT programme and to some extent the English language coursebooks used in secondary schools. Wha...

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 ...

Among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in English Language Teaching (ELT), particularly in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. The wealth of published material for English language teaching (ELT) available in the mark...

As an important focus of modern language education, intercultural language learning reflects greater awareness of the inseparability of language and culture and the need for providing the learners with materials concerning teaching intercultural communication to enhance learners’ intercultural competence in an increasingly multicultural world. Proper development of a learners’ understanding of ...

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 ...