İngilizce dil öğretimi ders kitaplarının 21. yüzyıl becerileri açısından analizi: İletişim, iş birliği, eleştirel düşünme, yaratıcılık

With the advances in technology in the 21st century, the skills required to be successful in life have considerably changed. English, as a school subject, has played a leading role in implementing many of the educational changes and new approaches in the classroom since it is a global language. Coursebooks, being an important component of the teaching and learning process, have considerable impact on incorporating new approaches into their syllabi. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the 4Cs of 21st Century Skills – communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, in English language teaching coursebooks. With this purpose in mind, a qualitative approach – content analysis design – was employed. The data was collected through internal and external evaluation checklists, which were developed based on related literature and field experts' opinions. The scope of the study was four primary coursebook series designed by international publishing companies, namely Power Up, Oxford Discover, Give Me Five and Big English Plus. The results were reported through descriptive statistics, frequency, mean and percentage. According to the results of the study, it has been revealed that each coursebook series includes the 21st century skills to some extent mostly in project, speaking and writing tasks.