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

Gerday, Laura

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

Gerday, Laura

2019 • In English Text Construction, 12 (1), p. 59-83

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English Language Teaching; discourse; stylistics; textbook research

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[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.

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

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Languages & linguistics

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

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English

Title :

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

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2019

Journal title :

English Text Construction

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1874-8767

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1874-8775

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John Benjamins Publishing Company, Netherlands

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59-83

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