Bibliographic metadata of the Textbook English Corpus (TEC)

These files contain the full bibliography metadata of the Textbook English Corpus (TEC) (Le Foll 2020; to appear; forthcoming). The TEC is made up of all the texts printed in 43 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) coursebooks used in secondary schools in France, Germany and Spain, as well as the transcripts of the accompanying audio and video materials for most of these textbooks. The corpus includes best-selling textbook series from eight major publishers. Each series corresponds to the first four or five years of English instruction at secondary school level. To be able to compare pedagogical materials used in different educational systems, each textbook was labelled for proficiency level on a universal scale of A to E: level A textbooks correspond to the first year of EFL instruction at secondary level, in other words, beginner level to roughly A1 on the CEFR scale (European Council 2004), whilst level E corresponds to the fifth year (CEFR B1–B2) (see CSV file). French textbook series only cover the first four years of secondary school (which take place at Collèges), which is why, whenever possible, a textbook from the same publisher corresponding to the fifth year of instruction (the first year of Lycée) was added. At the time of corpus compilation (2016–2018), Le Livre Scolaire did not produce any textbooks for Lycées.

For copyright reasons, the full corpus can sadly not be shared. If you are interested in working with the corpus and/or a potential research collaboration, please get in touch with Elen Le Foll (Osnabrück University, Germany).