Pragmatic Content in Global and Local ELT Textbooks

Hussein Meihami and Mobin Khanlarzadeh

SAGE Open, 2015, vol. 5, issue 4, 2158244015615168

Abstract: This study is an attempt to explore the frequency of pragmatic content occurrence represented as three speech acts of requesting, refusing, and apologizing in global and local English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks. Three global elementary ELT textbooks, namely Interchange, Top Notch , and American English File along with the local elementary textbooks of Iran Language Institute (ILI) Series , were examined for their pragmatic content. To analyze the pragmatic content of these textbooks, the researchers used three different frameworks. The results indicated that while both global and local ELT textbooks shared a sufficient number of speech acts of request and refusal, they failed to pay enough attention to the speech act of apology regarding its frequency and the strategies through which it is performed. To sum, the findings of this study highlight the differences in the frequency of different speech acts and the strategies used to perform them in global and local elementary ELT textbooks, which bear some implications for ELT textbook developers and language instructors.

Keywords: global ELT textbooks; local ELT textbooks; pragmatic content; speech acts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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