Abstract
The purpose of the present study is to analyse the emotion vocabulary content of three upper-intermediate (B2, CEFR) English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks to discover the extent to which they foster the acquisition of this target vocabulary (Council of Europe, 2001). The EFL textbooks examined were Masterclass (Haines & Stewart, 2008), English File (Latham-Koenig & Oxenden, 2014), and Jetstream (Harmer & Revell, 2016), used in EFL instruction at the authors’ institution. Warriner, Kuperman, and Brysbaert’s (2013) affective norm list in the English language was used as a reference word list to find emotion vocabulary across textbooks. Their size, most frequent word category, and frequency band were assessed. The main finding was that emotion vocabulary size in Jetstream (2016) was almost double that of the other two less recent textbooks. This improvement is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, anticipating the new descriptors in the CEFR (Council of Europe, 2018).
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