https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/joall <p><strong>JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature)</strong> is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal with an editorial board of scholars mainly in applied linguistics, literature, and English language teaching (ELT). Published biannually by UNIB Press, Universitas Bengkulu, Indonesia with the <a href="https://issn.brin.go.id/terbit/detail/1453787134">ISSN (online): 2503-524X</a>; and <a href="https://issn.brin.go.id/terbit/detail/1453786247">ISSN (print): 2502-7816</a>, the journal seeks to disseminate research to educators around the world. Authors are encouraged to submit complete, unpublished, original, and full-length articles that are not under review in any other journals. </p> <p> </p> UNIB Press en-US JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) 2502-7816 <p>Authors who publish in this journal agree with the following terms:</p> <ol type="a"> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See <a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html" target="_new">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li> <li>This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.</li> </ol> https://ejournal.unib.ac.id/joall/article/view/41244 <p>This study presents a comparative corpus analysis of interactional metadiscourse features in two English textbooks used in Indonesian senior high schools: an EFL textbook published by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture (<em>Bahasa Inggris: Work in Progress</em>) and an ESL textbook published by Cambridge University Press (<em>English as a Second Language: Second Edition</em>). Despite the central role textbooks play in shaping classroom discourse and developing students’ communicative competence, limited attention has been paid to how interactional metadiscourse is utilized in these materials, especially in EFL contexts like Indonesia, where textbooks often serve as the primary source of English input. Addressing this gap, the present study investigates how interactional metadiscourse, features that guide readers through the text and engage them, differ between a locally produced EFL textbook and an internationally published ESL textbook. The analysis was conducted using a corpus-based approach, drawing on Hyland’s (2005) model of interactional metadiscourse to manually identify and categorize features, including hedges, boosters, attitude markers, self-mentions, and engagement markers. The results revealed notable differences in the frequency and types of interactional metadiscourse employed in the two materials. These findings support the alternative hypothesis (H1), which posits that the international ESL textbook contains more interactional metadiscourse features than the Indonesian EFL textbook. The study contributes to the limited body of empirical research on metadiscourse in English textbooks and offers insights relevant to improving textbook design and English language instruction in the Indonesian context.</p> Rismar Riansih Angga Dwinka Safnil Arsyad Copyright (c) 2025 Rismar Riansih, Angga Dwinka, Safnil Arsyad https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 2025-07-05 2025-07-05 10 2 367 391 10.33369/joall.v10i2.41244