Christopher A. Smith

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher A. Smith is involved.

Title

Representing Societies in Language Teaching Textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials

Edited by David Machin, Lili Zhang and Christopher A. Smith

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 25:4 (2026) ca. 160 pp.

Articles

Machin, David, Lili Zhang and Christopher A. Smith 2026 Representing societies in language teaching textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials Representing Societies in Language Teaching Textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials, Machin, David, Lili Zhang and Christopher A. Smith (eds.), pp. 495–517 | Introduction

This introductory article to the special issue on representing societies in language teaching textbooks lays out how to analytically approach the data using multimodal critical discourse analysis. Foremost, it explains that we must place the texts into the socio-political context of the… read more

Smith, Christopher A. and Csilla Weninger 2026 Representation of social class in Korean ELT materials: A visual analysis Representing Societies in Language Teaching Textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials, Machin, David, Lili Zhang and Christopher A. Smith (eds.), pp. 596–613 | Article

Within English language textbook (ELT) research, studies across national contexts show that neoliberal ideology pervades the textual and visual content of textbooks. However, little attention has been paid specifically to social class and how its representations fit within the neoliberal… read more