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Discources of Identity in the 'Global' UK-Published English…
Discources of Identity in the 'Global' UK-Published English language coursebook
What does 'Discources of identity' mean?
-discource is more than just language use
-it is a language use in both speech and writing seen as a type of social practice
Education and discourses of identity
What constitutes knowledge in different contexts and disciplines
how this knowledge is represented in curricula, teaching and learning methodologies
Textbooks are themselves 'largely creatures of of their own communities' (Hyland, 2000)
interdiscursive configurations of the conventions, values, practices, activity types
all constitute particular order of the discourse
Globalizing discources of identity in ELT
-Challenge:'advanced' methods of ELT can be transformed from one context to another one
so as to improve teaching and learning English
-Calls for: 'appropriate' context sensitive methods
Discources of identity in the UK-published coursebook
Speakout
, published by Pearson, 2011
deployment of discources of individualism and consumerism have continued to be significant feature of UK-produced global coursebook
bestselling UK-published books
Analysis on:
-how certain orders of discources are prominent in particular context
-how educational systems privilege vertical orders of discourse
-close links between identities and discources
Number of protocols are developed
-which topics are included
-what type of people are represented
-which elements of language and communication are prioritised
-what settings and contexts are included presentation of language
-how the learner is positioned
-what task types are present
-what learners are asked to do tasks
Increasing centrality of the learner
Kernel Intermediate learners
Headway Intermediate learners
Reward Intermediate learners
Cutting Edge Intermediate
Speakout serious
Analysis of Central focus of interestes of students in coursebooks
Personality and personal qualities
Qualities in the quiz:
Can you always tell people what you think?
Can you usually get whatt you want?
Can you express your feelings easily?
Lifestyle
Personal change
Explaining changing discources of identity
Greater learner self-direction
and autonomy for learner-centredness
Personalisation
Greater attention was paid attention to the followings in the coursebooks:
Individualism
defines the person in terms of his capaity to articulate and enact his unique experience, particulary expressions of taste and feelings
the role of consumer objects
'new world of consumption' (Sarup, 1996)
Individuals define their indentity through consumption
affuent individuals who are not surrounded by other human beings, as they were in the past, but by objects