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.
Lili Zhang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lili Zhang is involved.
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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
2026 The representation of English language learners in EFL textbooks in China: The erasure of crushing pressure and obligation experienced by learners in the school system Representing Societies in Language Teaching Textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials, Machin, David, Lili Zhang and Christopher A. Smith (eds.), pp. 538–554 | Article
Scholars have urged further research into specific discourses and ideologies embedded in ELT textbooks, which are adapted or produced in different regions. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, this paper analyzes the EFL textbooks produced in China, where English learning has become a… read more