• Shafiq Banat

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This study aims at examining the educational values included in the English workbooks for the higher basic school in Jordan. Adopting the „sentence‟ as a unit of analysis, the research sample of this study consists of all the activities encountered in the English workbooks in 2017/2018. In light of the general framework of school curricula in Jordan, 36 values to be included in the subject workbooks are found to be spiritual, economic, societal, and aesthetic/environmental; the spiritual aspect is found to be the most frequent one (N=137, 42%). In specific, the most frequent educational values were spiritual for the tenth grade (18%), societal and economic for the eighth grade (15% and 8% respectively) and aesthetic/environmental for the ninth grade (4%).

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