Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
This study employed content analysis to explore glocalization in 40 elementary school textbooks from ten expanding countries and Taiwan, with the following conclusions. First, glocalization was deficient in the textbooks. Second, both local and global features were included in the textbooks, and these features were from the home, target culture, and other cultures. However, the features represented superficial cultural aspects, such as names, costumes, nationality, or flags. Finally, the country’s condition, textbook grades, and English proficiency levels affected the content of local, global, and glocalized features in the textbooks. Suggestions on glocalization were provided for textbook designers and English teachers.
Results/Contributions

This survey study along with follow-up interviews and document analysis explored 130 Taiwanese elementary school English teachers’ knowledge, lesson planning, and curriculum planning of glocalization. This study reached the following major findings. First, a gap existed between teachers’ knowledge and classroom practice of glocalization. Secondly, teachers’ glocalized English lessons tended to focus more on global issues and only two of the eight teachers who joined the follow-up interviews completely designed and implemented glocalized lessons into classroom practice. In order to equip English teachers with competence on glocalization, implications are provided for language teacher education.

Keywords
awarenessclassroom practiceglocalized English instructionglocalization
Contact Information
簡靜雯
cwchien@mx.nthu.edu.tw