Textbook English : a multi-dimensional approach /
"This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine li...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2024]
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| Series: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 116. |
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Table of Contents:
- Context and rationale : why study textbook English?
- Research on the language of school EFL textbooks : the state of the art
- Research aims and corpus data
- Methodology : adapting the multi-dimensional analysis (MDA) framework
- A model of intra-textbook linguistic variation
- A comparative model of textbook English vs. 'Real-world' English
- Discussion : what is textbook English?
- Pedagogical implications and recommendations
- Methodological reflections.