TY  - JOUR
TI  - An Evaluation of the English Language Teaching Textbooks within the Context of Culture of Thinking
AB  - The sociocultural approach has recently been focused on teaching thinking skills andconsidering the rapidly changing information age and lifelong learning skills, it can be said thatculture-based thinking instruction has become more popular. The literature illustrates few butvarious studies regarding the contribution of the culture of thinking in different projects. In that vein,this study seeks to examine English Language Teaching (ELT) Moonlight 8th grade students’ bookand workbook which were distributed by the Ministry of National Education and taught in stateschools within the context of the culture for thinking. The target textbooks were analyzed throughdocument analysis in the framework of qualitative research designs. Tishman, Perkins, and Jay(1995)’s framework of the culture of thinking was taken as a basis for examining the target textbooksregarding culture of thinking and main themes have been shaped. The findings of the studyconcluded that along with the activities supporting the culture of thinking in regard to the languageof thinking, mental management, strategic attitude, and transfer, various activities and activityexpressions were emphasized to have a risk to overshadow the findings of supporting the culture ofthinking.
AU  - Güzel Yüce, Sibel
AU  - Emir, Gamze
DO  - 10.18039/ajesi.682060
PY  - 2020
JO  - Anadolu Journal of Educational Sciences International 
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SN  - 2146-4014
SP  - 583
EP  - 628
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/369358
ER  -