Culture in English language teaching textbooks: the emergence of a synergistic blueprint

Culture has long proven to be inextricably intertwined with language and has attracted a plethora of studies in the realm of applied linguistics. However, its representation in textbooks, English textbooks in particular, has only recently been touched on. The reason behind this belated attempt lies in the fact that there exists no all-agreed model which explicates how culture should be represented in English textbooks. As a prime example, some...