High School English Textbooks Research Articles

A Comparative Study of the National Image Constructed by Junior High School English Textbooks

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Integrating Chinese cultural elements in senior high school English textbooks: A comparative study

Integrating Chinese cultural elements in senior high school English textbooks: A comparative study

Study on the Moral Education Infiltration in Junior High School English Textbooks from the Perspective of Cultivating Moral Talents

Compulsory education English Curriculum Standards (2022 edition) clearly points out guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the English curriculum fully implements the Party’s educational policies, fulfills the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, and takes cultivating new-era talents with ideals, abilities, and responsibilities as its starting point and goal.

Depiction Of Moral Values In Indonesian English Junior High School Textbooks

Most language textbooks are analyzed by emphasizing cultural/multicultural content, gender stereotypes/representation, neoliberalism, and pedagogical representation. The role of language textbooks on moral and cultural values at various levels has been examined. However, moral values at the junior high school level are scarce. This study examined the moral values in junior high school English textbooks entitled “English for Nusantara” for grades 7 and 8 published by the Indonesian Education Standard, Curriculum, and Assessment Agency of the Ministry of Education Culture, Research and Higher Education within the independent curriculum. This research used a qualitative content analysis research design. This study adopted the Moral Foundations Theory Framework (MTF) Graham presented a set of moral principles such as care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and sanctity/degradation. The result showed that both the textbooks for grades 7 and 8 were similar representing more dominant moral values than bad values, with percentages of 95% and 59%, respectively. The other finding suggested that the textbooks did not integrate authority, loyalty, and fairness. The study implies incorporating stories that highlight moral values should be required to internalize ethical values and encourage students to do good things.

The Representation of Global Competence in a Senior High School English Textbook in Indonesia

Global competence (GC) helps to overcome multidimensional problems that should be learned in education. The integration of it can be done through the English for Change textbook which is the current and latest English textbook applying the Merdeka Curriculum. This research investigates the representation of GC in the English for Change textbook for 11th-grade Indonesian senior high school students. This qualitative research employed Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to evaluate and analyze the representation of GC in the 'English for Change’ textbook, which follows the Merdeka Curriculum. The analysis was started by reading and codifying some parts of the textbook to four dimensions of GC from OECD PISA, which are examining the local, global, and intercultural problems; understanding and appreciating various perspectives from others; engaging in open, appropriate, and effective multicultural interaction; and taking action for the development and sustainability of well-being. The finding reveals that GC is represented sufficiently which can be found in 59 pages in the book. The most dimension used is to take action for collective well-being and sustainable development with a percentage of 42.37%. However, examining local, international, and intercultural problem dimensions should be exposed more in the book with a percentage of only 11.86%. Therefore, teachers and students need to learn GC through the English for Change textbook and expand additional insights about multidimensional problems through other learning resources besides the English for Change textbook.

Cultural Content in High School English Textbooks in China: Analysis of Types, Themes, and Students’ Attitudes

Cultural Content in High School English Textbooks in China: Analysis of Types, Themes, and Students’ Attitudes

The Treatment of High School English Textbooks in China: A Discussion Based on Krashen’s Input Hypothesis

The Treatment of High School English Textbooks in China: A Discussion Based on Krashen’s Input Hypothesis

FLTRP 2019 Edition of New High School English Textbooks In-depth Analysis

FLTRP 2019 Edition of New High School English Textbooks In-depth Analysis

Study of conceptual metaphor in high school English Textbooks: A Case Study of People’s Education Edition

Since Lakoff and Johnson proposed the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, metaphor has gradually been studied as a way of thinking and acting rather than just a rhetorical device. In the past few decades, Conceptual Metaphor Theory has been applied to many fields, especially the field of Foreign Language Teaching. For second language learners, understanding metaphors in a different culture is one of the barriers in the process of second language learning. This paper makes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the metaphors in the high school English textbooks. By enumerating three different metaphors in the textbook, it is not difficult to see that metaphor has caused obstacles to students' foreign language learning. At the same time, statistics on the frequency of metaphors in books can help us intuitively realize the universality of metaphor in language. Therefore, teachers should adjust their teaching strategies in time and have special teaching methods for learning material that contains metaphors.

Iran’s High School English Textbooks (Vision Series) and Organizational Knowledge as a Component of CLT Model

Selecting an appropriate textbook is one of the key factors in teaching English. This content analysis study scrutinized whether organizational knowledge represented in Iranian high school English textbooks (Vision Series). Thus, the stance of organizational components as one of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) principles was investigated in such textbooks. George (1963) verb form frequency count, Halliday and Hassan’s (1976) model, McCrimman's (1984) model, Vocabulary List Cambridge English (2012) were used to examine the extent to which organizational knowledge was shown in high school EFL textbooks. The analysis of the results revealed that grammatical knowledge was not presented comprehensively. Therefore, high school students would not be able to exhibit a wide variety range of vocabulary. Because the vision series roughly represented the sufficient vocabulary size. The Vision series highlighted intonation rather than pronunciation. The role of rhetorical organizations was disregarded in the Vision series. Therefore, he Vision series should be revised to include the organizational components. Generally, the Vision series did not follow CLT principles to promote language learners' ability to communicate.

A Study on Attitudinal Resources of Reading Texts in Chinese Senior High School English Textbooks: Taking Book 1 of Yilin Press AS an Example

A Study on Attitudinal Resources of Reading Texts in Chinese Senior High School English Textbooks: Taking Book 1 of Yilin Press AS an Example

On Gender Equality in Junior High School English Textbooks: A Case Study of the Chinese PEP Eighth-Grade Textbooks

With the development of society, the consciousness of female subjectivity has gradually awakened, and the issue of gender equality in the field of education has also attracted more and more attentions. Education plays an important role in constructing students’ concept of gender equality, and textbooks, as an important medium for students to receive education, are an important part of promoting educational equality. In addition, the junior high school stage is a critical period for students to develop values, and textbooks, as an educational medium, should help students establish a correct understanding of gender roles. However, previous studies have shown that there is an implicit bias of gender inequality in teaching materials. This study conducts an in-depth study on gender equality in the PEP eighth-grade English textbooks. It adopts the literature review method to sort out the relevant research at home and abroad, and uses the content analysis method to comprehensively analyze the gender roles, illustrations, and language use in the textbooks. It also combines quantitative and qualitative analysis methods to discuss the current situation and causes of gender equality. The study finds that there are gender stereotypes and gender discrimination in textbooks, which have an impact on students’ gender perception and self-perception. Concerning these issues, this paper proposes improvement countermeasures, aiming to promote the fairness of junior high school English education, to help students establish correct gender concepts and self-awareness, and to provide references and suggestions for the compilation of teaching materials.

Toulmin Model Based Argument Diagnosing: Constructing and Evaluating in The Argumention Essay in Indonesia Efl Text Book

This research aims to describe and explain Toulmin's argument patterns in the 2017 revised edition of the 2017 High School English textbook for class XI curriculum. This type of research is qualitative research using document analysis methods. The subject of this research is the 2017 revised edition of the 2013 curriculum 2013 high school English textbook. This book was written by Herman Benyamin. The object of this research is Toulmin's argument pattern. Analysis of the arguments in the discourse in the book is based on Toulmin's arguments whose components consist of Claim (C), Ground (G), Warrant (W), Backing (B), Qualifier (Q), and Rebuttal (R). After finding a pattern in each discourse, a conclusion is given. The results of this research show that this book contains patterns formed in discourse. From the results of Toulmin's argument analysis, in topic 1, patterns C (10%), RC (10%), GC (10), GQC (10%), GWC were found. (10%), GWBC (10%), GWQC (10%), GWRC (10%), GWBQC (10), GWBQRC (10%), Topic 2 is in C (14.3%), RC (0), GC (14.3%), GQC (14.3%), GWC (14.3%), GWBC (14.3%), GWQC (14.3%), GWRC (0%), GWBQC (14.3%), GWBQRC (0%). Discourse that does not have an argument is 20% and there are arguments that are not good according to Toulmin's argument. According to Toulmin, a good argument from this book is 85%, meaning that the presentation of this argument in the 2013 edition of the high school English textbook issued by the government can be said to be very good

Demystifying the cultural representations in international high school English textbooks: a social-semiotic approach and teachers’ views

ABSTRACT Albeit cultural content in English textbooks have been much reported, little empirical evidence addresses global or international-distributed English textbooks. To fill this void, the present qualitative content analysis study aims to explore the representation of cultural content in international English textbooks used for Indonesian senior high school students. For another contribution, we also attempt to gain English teachers’ perceptions of cultural content in the textbooks examined through written interviews. Grounded in a social semiotic approach, the findings showcased that the textbooks’ content represents inner-circle countries in the aspect of perspectives, products, persons, and practices. Further, the imbalance in the cultural representation of the outer circle and expanding circle countries indicated that the authors do not sufficiently increase the global cultural awareness of English language learners because other cultural perspectives on varieties of English are not included. The interviews analysis revealed that the cultural contents were short and required improvement.

A Study on Chinese Culture in High School English Textbooks of BNUP from the Perspective of Conceptual Blending Theory for Multimodal Metaphors

At the end of the 20th century, scholars represented by Forceville dived into the construction and representation of metaphors using various modalities, leading the shift of metaphor studies towards multimodality, which consequently put the study of multimodal metaphors in the spotlight. English textbooks, as a combination of visual and linguistic modes of expression, contain a large number of metaphors. From the perspective of conceptual blending theory, the paper explores the construction and meaning of multimodal metaphors of Chinese culture in three compulsory high school English textbooks of Beijing Normal University Press. It is found that these three compulsory high school English textbooks of Beijing Normal University Press (BNUP) contain many multimodal metaphors of Chinese culture, and these multimodal metaphors can activate student’s cultural background knowledge and convey the communicative intention of the pictures, thus arousing students’ interest in Chinese culture and fostering cultural confidence.

A Study on the Curriculum Ideological and Political Elements in Senior High School English Textbooks (PEP) under the Goal of Fostering Virtue through Education

A Study on the Curriculum Ideological and Political Elements in Senior High School English Textbooks (PEP) under the Goal of Fostering Virtue through Education

Six-Dimensional Guidance: The Strategies of Thinking Quality Cultivation in Senior High School English Discourse Learning

Taking the discourse learning of the new senior high school English textbook published by the People’s Education Press as an example, combined with the “six-dimensional guidance” deep reading strategy, and through the six-skill training strategies of “memory skill training, understanding skill training, application skill training, analytical skill training, evaluation skill training, creative skill training,” this paper aims to cultivate students’ thinking profundity, logic, flexibility, sensitivity, criticality, and originality. It also promotes the real implementation of senior high school English deep reading that points to the cultivation of thinking quality in classroom teaching, and realizes the transformation from “conventional reading” to “deep reading” that reflects the core literacy of the discipline.

고등학교 영어 교과서 속 칭찬과 칭찬응답

Objectives The purpose of the paper was to analyze two speech acts (compliment and compliment response) in high school English textbooks and to find whether they were presented authentically and accurately according to L2 pragmatic norms.
 Methods Compliments in 8 differing textbooks were analyzed in terms of three aspects of compliment (syntactic structures, lexicals and topics), and compliment responses in textbooks were categorized according to four types of response (acceptance, amendment, rejection and non-acknowledgement). Then the analyzed compliments and compliment responses were compared with those acts made by English native speakers.
 Results Compliments in textbooks heavily relied on specific syntactic structures, used a variety of adjectives rather than a limited set of adjectives, and focused more on personality than physical appearance as compliment topics, which showed clear differences from what English native speakers do in their performance of compliments. Also unlike native speakers who prefer acceptance by responding positively to compliments, compliment responses in textbooks over-used non-acceptance strategies through refusal or non-acknowledgement.
 Conclusions Given these results, English textbooks should be developed based only on pragmatic norms of target language speakers, not intuitions or L1 knowledge of textbook developers.

A critical content analysis of writing materials covered in Indonesian high school English textbooks

Despite many studies addressing writing materials in English language learning textbooks in the Indonesian context, few reported the conformity of the English writing materials in senior high school textbooks intended for the 2013 curriculum to the genre of written language paradigm. The present study critically analyzed the existing writing materials covered in Indonesian senior high school textbooks. The data sources for this research were three English textbooks designed for three levels of senior high school students in Indonesia. The writing materials were selected from the textbooks as the representatives of the analysis objects. The data were analyzed following content analysis by integrating Brown (2004) as the conceptual framework. The results reveal that the writing materials are consistent with the framework. The books cover all text genres, including academic, professional, and personal writing. However, not all framework-informed sub-categories of texts are reflected in the writing materials of the examined textbooks. In addition, the evaluated textbooks emphasize student exposure to intensive writing tasks (grammatical transformation, short-answer sentence completion, and picture-cued tasks) and extensive writing tasks (paragraph construction, guided question and answer, and paraphrasing). These results highlight the need to align textbooks with the curriculum genre of the written language paradigm and to balance intensive and extensive writing tasks to prepare students for real-life writing situations.

Cultural Representation on The Functional Grammar Exercises in an Indonesian Junior High School English Textbook

Studies on English language textbook analysis rarely incorporate cultural values in the functional grammar exercises since it is a crucial learning material in the English textbook. To address this gap, we aim to pinpoint the representation of cultural values in the functional grammar exercises in an Indonesian junior high school English textbook. By employing critical discourse study as the research methodology, we analyzed both the visual and textual data presented on the functional grammar exercises in the textbook. We adopted two analytical tools for analyzing data, i.e. transitivity analysis; and critical discourse analysis. The result shows that there are 28 functional grammar exercises that facilitate students in making meaning. Meaningful cultural representation from many social practices was found. This study suggests incorporating its findings into teaching to explain cultural values to students. Further studies need to focus on providing teacher experiences in teaching functional grammar exercises.