Christopher A. Smith
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher A. Smith is involved.
Articles
2026 Representing societies in language teaching textbooks: Localized ideologies in language learning materials Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This introductory article to the special issue on representing societies in language teaching textbooks lays out how to analytically approach the data using multimodal critical discourse analysis. Foremost, it explains that we must place the texts into the socio-political context of the… read more
2026 Representation of social class in Korean ELT materials: A visual analysis Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
Within English language textbook (ELT) research, studies across national contexts show that neoliberal ideology pervades the textual and visual content of textbooks. However, little attention has been paid specifically to social class and how its representations fit within the neoliberal… read more