FIRE: Futuristic Implementations of Research in Education

Yazarlar: ["Kubra Erdogan", "Mukaddes Coban", "Dilay Isik Kirisci"]

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Anahtar Kelimeler:English as a lingua franca,Language teaching,Textbooks

Özet: This article aims to investigate the possible outcomes of World Englishes and English as a lingua franca in second language teaching and coursebooks. The main focus of the research is on the perspective of ELF. This study examines two English textbooks: a book with a local audience which is written by the Ministry of Education of Turkey, and a book with an international audience which is internationally published. To analyze these coursebooks, Cortazzi's and Jin's (1999) and Adaskou, Britten, and 'Fahsi's (1990) frameworks divided the cultural content of the materials into three different culture types were adopted. The study's findings indicated that the ELT textbooks tended to be different in the way they represented L2 and international cultural content.

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