What Is "Global" in an ELT Global Coursebook? A Linguistic Analysis of the New Headway Upper‑Intermediate Student’s Book

[en] The adjective "global" has become a buzzword in recent years, not least in academia. Within the area of English Language Teaching (ELT) in particular, "global coursebooks" have aroused a great deal of interest, but also much suspicion, as their content turns out not to be as universal as the adjective "global" might literally mean. In this paper, I investigate the 2014 New Headway Upper-Intermediate Student’s Book and bring to light some of the ideological constructions underpinning this supposedly global course material. As a result of this analysis, I provide an expanded characterisation of the ELT global textbook, regarding it as a course built upon standard language ideologies rather than, as suggested by previous studies, as an artefact shaped by a predominantly neoliberal agenda.

Research Center/Unit :

CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège

Disciplines :

Languages & linguistics

Author, co-author :

Gerday, Laura ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction > Langue et linguistique anglaises modernes

Language :

English

Title :

What Is "Global" in an ELT Global Coursebook? A Linguistic Analysis of the New Headway Upper‑Intermediate Student’s Book

Publication date :

2019

Journal title :

English Text Construction

ISSN :

1874-8767

eISSN :

1874-8775

Publisher :

John Benjamins Publishing Company, Netherlands

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Pages :

59-83

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