Anderson, Jason (2023) TESOL textbook content in the global south : challenges and opportunities for appropriate and sustainable learning. In: Smart, Andy and Iannuzzi, Susan and Horvath, Lisa and Sinclair, Margaret, (eds.) NISSEM Global Briefs Volume 4 : Doing more with language teaching. NISSEM, pp. 370-399.

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Abstract

This brief investigates the content of textbooks used for the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) in basic education (primary and secondary) in the global South. It identifies key challenges in this area of materials development, analyzes current content tendencies in textbooks, and discusses affordances typically available for making content appropriate to learner needs, accessible to learner schemata, and facilitative of learning. Through analysis of 32 textbooks from 15 countries in Africa and Asia, it identifies three common authorship scenarios (exogenous, mixed, and endogenous authorship), which are found to have differing influences on textbook content. The findings reveal two broad types of textbook (those produced by local and those produced by multinational publishers), which differ in their tendencies in a range of areas, including skills practice, explicit language focus, and topic choices for units and texts. The chapter concludes by considering how locally appropriate balances between the tendencies identified may be found, including through more effective localization and learner-orientation in text choice and through the use of balanced authorship teams with awareness of teachers’ and learners’ needs alongside textbook writing expertise.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum L Education > LT Textbooks
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers, Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Case studies, Education -- Developing countries, English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers, Educational technology, English language -- Study and teaching -- Aids and devices
Publisher:	NISSEM
Book Title:	NISSEM Global Briefs Volume 4 : Doing more with language teaching
Editor:	Smart, Andy and Iannuzzi, Susan and Horvath, Lisa and Sinclair, Margaret
Official Date:	June 2023
Dates:	Date Event June 2023 Published
Volume:	4
Page Range:	pp. 370-399
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Copyright Holders:	© 2023 NISSEM All Rights Reserved
Date of first compliant deposit:	12 June 2023
Date of first compliant Open Access:	13 June 2023
Open Access Version:	Publisher

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