The Democratic Values Included in Sixth Grade EFL Textbooks in Jordan: Analytical Study

Sahm Tayseer Al-Ma'aitah (Ph.D. candidate, Ministry of Education, Jordan)
Majid Muhammad Al-Khataybeh (Professor of TEFL, Mutah University, Jordan)

Britain International for Linguistics, Arts and Education Journal (BIoLAE Journal)
Vol 4 No 2 (2022): Britain International of Linguistics, Arts and Education - July

This analytical study aimed at analyzing the democratic values existing in sixth-grade English textbooks in Jordan. The population of the study consisted of all content of sixth-grade EFL textbooks during the scholastic year 2021\2022. The researchers developed a content analysis card consisting of 37 democratic values distributed according to (4) fields: Political Principles, Cultural Rights, Human and Social relations, and Religious Values. The findings revealed that there are 1846 democratic values in the sixth-grade textbooks. The findings also indicated that the political principles are the most frequent value in the content of sixth-grade English textbooks while religious values are the least promoted within the textbooks.