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Telling Tales: Changing Discourses of Identity in the 'Global' UK…
Telling Tales: Changing Discourses of Identity in the 'Global' UK-Published English Language Coursebook
Introduction
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Such wider relationship structures provide limited consideration in the literature regarding the design and assessment of language teaching materials and tasks
Activities, tasks, functions and understandings do not exist in isolation; They are part of broader systems of relations in which they have meaning
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Discourses of Identity
'Discourse is more than just language use: it is language use, whether in speech or writing, seen as a type of social practice'
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One way that people seek to make sense of their lives is to attempt to link their own tale to a wider cultural or historical story
It is often historical- and cultural-specified that every provided collection of narratives is available for use
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Lifestyle
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In 'Lifestyles' unit in Reward Upper Intermediate (Greenal, (1996) there is another example of how to motivate learners to differentiate themselves from others
In Cutting Edge Intermediate (Cunningham & Moor, 1999), the focus on consumption is also noticed
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Personal Change
Personal development and change are emphasized in both of the Cutting Edge books asking 'life stories and life experiences'
An emphasis on personal change and self-improvement are related to 'healthy lifestyle practices' in the coursebooks published in the 1980s and 1990s
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Conclusions
ELT is a field that is genuinely universal and where the course book is the most visible representation of globalization
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Benwell and Stokoe, (2006)
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