Glocalized Adaptation in Pakistani EFL Textbooks: A Sociocultural Perspective

Abstract

A textbook being a part and parcel of every language teaching or learning context entails a wide range of possibilities related to different domains of language learning process. Pakistani EFL textbooks, including global texts with their embedded sociocultural impacts, undergo modifications which make texts conducive for learners having different cultural and ideological contexts. This relevant change or adaptation characterized by glocalization, a coined blend of globalization and localization, takes place because of sociocultural and ideological identities of Pakistani language learners, different from those that are in global texts. This study analyzes Pakistani EFL textbooks in the light of David Block’s critical sociocultural theoretical framework in Globalization and Language Teaching (2002) mentioning how different texts rich have been adapted to acclimatize them for EFL learners. Rathert & Cabaroğlu’s (2022) analytical model has been used to study cultural adaptation. It is a qualitative analysis of selected short stories in Book I and Book II and novel “Good Bye Mr. Chips” being taught at the higher secondary level/college level in Punjab, Pakistan. The analysis goes through glocalized adaptation process of addition, deletion, abridging and modifying. The results have been tabulated with the description of reason of adaptions.