An In-depth Analysis of Foreign Language Course Books to Investigate How and to What Extent Current Global Crises Are Covered in Them

Foreign language teachers and textbook companies have an increasing number of missions to unfold the evolving global crises such as ethnic conflict, social inequality, terrorism, forced migration, wars and poverty. This chapter employs document analysis technique to collect data from two English language course book series (A1-C1) used at the tertiary level in Türkiye. Accordingly, this chapter follows content analysis technique to report on the global issues. The results indicate that the course books include topics dominantly on environmental and health education, socio-economic issues but scarcely on peace education. Therefore, this chapter presents methodological and pedagogical implications for language teachers, textbook authors and companies to use Language of Peace Approach (LPA) to respond to such crises since LPA intends to enhance knowledge, shape attitudes and hone skills in a multicultural and interdependent world. Finally, this chapter offers the integration of peace education into language teaching to raise learners’ awareness of peace and conflict towards refugees.