Pragmatic Content in Global and Local ELT Textbooks

This study is an attempt to explore the frequency of pragmaticcontent occurrence represented as three speech acts of requesting, refusing, andapologizing in global and local English Language Teaching (ELT) textbooks. Three globalelementary ELT textbooks, namely Interchange, Top Notch, and American English File alongwith the local elementary textbooks of Iran Language Institute (ILI) Series, wereexamined for their pragmatic content. To analyze the pragmatic content of thesetextbooks, the researchers used three different frameworks. The results indicated thatwhile both global and local ELT textbooks shared a sufficient number of speech acts ofrequest and refusal, they failed to pay enough attention to the speech act of apologyregarding its frequency and the strategies through which it is performed. To sum, thefindings of this study highlight the differences in the frequency of different speechacts and the strategies used to perform them in global and local elementary ELTtextbooks, which bear some implications for ELT textbook developers and languageinstructors