• Textbook English
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Literature review
    • Appendix 2.1
  • Chapter 3: Research aims and data
    • Appendix 3.1
    • Appendix 3.2
    • Appendix 3.3
    • Appendix 3.4
  • Chapter 4: Exploring the progressive in Textbook English
    • Appendix 4.1
    • Appendix 4.2
    • Appendix 4.3
    • Appendix 4.4
    • Appendix 4.5
    • Appendix 4.6
  • Chapter 5: Making sense of MAKE in Textbook English
    • Appendix 5.1
    • Appendix 5.2
  • Chapter 6: A multi-dimensional description of Textbook English
    • Appendix 6.1
    • Appendix 6.2
    • Appendix 6.3
  • Chapter 7: Towards a new multi-dimensional understanding of Textbook English
    • Appendix 7.1
    • Appendix 7.2
    • Appendix 7.3
    • Appendix 7.4
    • Appendix 7.5
    • Appendix 7.6
    • Appendix 7.7
  • Chapter 8: Summary and general discussion

Textbook English

Welcome to the companion website to my PhD thesis:

Le Foll, Elen. 2022. Textbook English: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Language of EFL textbooks used in Secondary Schools in France, Germany and Spain. Osnabrück University: PhD thesis. https://doi.org/10.48693/278.

This is the Online Appendix. It includes the full code for all the analyses, tables and figures. The code itself and, copyright permitting, the data to run it are available in the associated GitHub repository. All the code published on this page and in the repository is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. The plots and tables are all licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Chapter 1: Introduction

- Where is Brian?

- Brian is in the kitchen.

- Where is Jenny, the sister of Brian?

- Jenny is in the bathroom.

More information on the context of this textbook dialogue can be found here.

An extract of the comedy sketch by Gad Elmaleh that popularised the dialogue can be viewed here with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/11jG7lkwDwU?t=50

Chapter 2: Literature review

Appendix 2.1

This is a tabular overview of all the Textbook English studies that I examined as part of my literature review. It presents the results of a non-exhaustive survey of Textbook English studies published over the past four decades, summarising some of the key information on each study, including its main language focus, methodological approach, information on the textbooks investigated, and, if applicable, on any reference corpora used. Empty cells represent fields that are either not applicable to this particular study or for which no information could be found. Intended as a dynamic resource, this interactive, searchable, and filterable table currently lists over 80 studies on the language content of English L2 textbooks, thereby demonstrating the breadth of Textbook English studies published to date.

Chapter 3: Research aims and data

Appendix 3.1

Open Science statement (as printed in Section 3.2.2 of the thesis)

Appendix 3.2

A detailed tabular overview of the composition of the Textbook English Corpus (TEC) together with the full bibliographic metadata is available on doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4922819.

Note that, for copyright reasons, the corpus itself cannot be published.

Appendix 3.3

The original corpus files of the Spoken BNC2014 can be downloaded for free for research purposes from: http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014/signup.php

R script used to pre-process the untagged XML version of the Spoken BNC2014

Appendix 3.4

Youth Fiction metadata

Note that, for copyright reasons, the corpus itself cannot be made available.

Chapter 4: Exploring the progressive in Textbook English

Appendix 4.1

Data and code for all the analyses

Appendix 4.2

R script for the automatic pre-annotation of concordance lines

Appendix 4.3

List of verbs and their (main) semantic domains

Appendix 4.4

R notebook for the morphosyntactic analysis of progressives in Textbook Conversation (in HTML format)

Appendix 4.5

R notebook for morphosyntactic analysis of progressives in Textbook Fiction (in HTML format)

Appendix 4.6

R notebook for the semantic and collostructional analysis of progressives in Textbook Conversation and Fiction (in HTML format)

Chapter 5: Making sense of MAKE in Textbook English

Appendix 5.1

Data and code for all the analyses

Appendix 5.2

R notebook for the progressive analyses in HTML format

Chapter 6: A multi-dimensional description of Textbook English

Appendix 6.1

More information about the Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (MAT) by Andrea Nini

Link to the GitHub repository of the MAT

Appendix 6.2

Data, code and plots for all the analyses in this and following chapter

Appendix 6.3

R notebook for the analyses of the additive MDAs based on Biber’s (1988) model of General Spoken and Written English (in HTML format)

Chapter 7: Towards a new multi-dimensional understanding of Textbook English

Appendix 7.1

Link to the GitHub repository of the Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE)

Full list of features tagged by the MFTE

Appendix 7.2

Data, code and plots for all the analyses included in Chapters 6 and 7

Appendix 7.3

R notebook for the evaluation of the MFTE for the present study (HTML format)

Appendix 7.4

R notebook to prepare the TEC data for the MDAs

Appendix 7.5

R notebook to prepare the reference data for the MDAs

Appendix 7.6

R notebook for the analysis of intra-textbook linguistic variation

Appendix 7.7

R notebook for the Textbook English vs. ‘real-life’ English analysis

Chapter 8: Summary and general discussion

Links to the corpora and corpus tools mentioned in the pedagogical implications section:

• Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and text analysis tool
• The Movies Corpus
• The TV Corpus
• TCSE: TED talk corpus and search engine
• CQPweb (for the Spoken BNC2014 among many other corpora)