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Systemic Functional Analysis of In-house EFL Textbooks and Commercial Textbooks from an Appraisal Viewpoint

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اموزش زبان انگلسي

دانشگاه پيام نور مركز نجف آباد

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مريم فرنيا

Appraisal meaning , inscribed meaning , interpersonal meaning , invoked meaning , Systematic Functional Linguistics (SFL)

.These days, EFL textbooks have a great influence on students, learning, teacherʹs education, and language institutes quality. So, it is crucial for institutes and teachers to select an appropriate textbook but having knowledge of the structure and components of the textbook plays an important role in understanding the studentsʹ learning and even in selecting and developing the textbooks. In this study, researchers tried to analyze the attitudinal structure of the selected texts in Top Notch and ILI English textbooks based on the Appraisal framework to see which components (Affect, Judgment, and Appreciation) were more strongly represented in different levels (basic and advanced) of these textbooks. A descriptive -analytical corpus study was designed to check and compare the frequency of attitudinal meaning components, that is, Affect, Judgment and Appreciation in basic and advanced Top Notch and ILI textbooks. The results of the analyses show that, in basic level, the percentages of inscribed attitudinal components are higher than invoked ones but in advanced level, the percentages of invoked attitudes are more than inscribed attitudinal lexis in ILI and Top Notch texts. This pattern indicates that these textbooks prefer more explicit attitude in basic level and more implicit attitude in advanced level. Further details reveal that Top Notch textbooks have used more Judgment components in their basic level and more Affect components in their advanced level while ILI textbooks have used more Appreciation components in their basic level and more Judgment components in their advanced level.

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