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Also by Nigel Harwood ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS: Theory and Practice

English Language Teaching Textbooks Content, Consumption, Production Edited by

Nigel Harwood Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK

Selection and editorial matter © Nigel Harwood 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-27627-8 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2014 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

ISBN 978-1-137-27630-8 ISBN 978-1-137-27628-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137276285 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

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Acknowledgements

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Notes on Contributors

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1 Content, Consumption, and Production: Three Levels of Textbook Research Nigel Harwood

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Part I Studies of Textbook Content 2 All Middle Class Now? Evolving Representations of the Working Class in the Neoliberal Era: The Case of ELT Textbooks John Gray and David Block 3 Reading Comprehension Questions: The Distribution of Different Types in Global EFL Textbooks Diana Freeman 4 Teaching English Reading: What’s Included in the Textbooks of Pre-Service General Education Teachers? L. Quentin Dixon, Shuang Wu, Renata Burgess-Brigham, R. Malatesha Joshi, Emily Binks-Cantrell, and Erin Washburn

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Part II Studies of Textbook Consumption 5 Teachers’ Conceptualization and Use of the Textbook on a Medical English Course Ahlam Menkabu and Nigel Harwood

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6 An E