AUTHOR=Alhadi Ali Ahmed Fatma , Mohammadzadeh Behbood , Mazlum Farhad 

TITLE=An in-depth analysis of the representation of speech acts and language functions in Libyan public high school English textbooks

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1056745

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1056745

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Abstract
The research attempts to inspect the frequency of speech acts and language functions in the 21st Century English for Libya Secondary 1,2 and 3 coursebooks and workbooks. Two frameworks were employed to analyze the speech acts and language functions present in this series of textbooks. Five-course books and five workbooks in the same series were examined for the former pragmatic features. The results specified that all the textbooks had shortages in the declarative speech act and the imaginative language function and showed signs of unequal distribution of these pragmatic features throughout all the series of the textbooks. The findings highlight that the unequal frequency and distribution of these pragmatic variables are in line with previous studies and, therefore, provide implications for EFL curriculum designers and language practitioners.