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Evaluating English Textbooks: A Cultural Matter - Coggle Diagram
Evaluating English Textbooks: A Cultural Matter
Focus of attention
Certain Needs
Certain Population
Certain Student's Ages
Institutional Needs.
The Process of Conceptualizing
About Culture in Textbooks
What CULTURE means.
The way teachers evaluate CULTURE in English.
Examination.
The idea of Culture.
Privilege of the elite.
Storey.:
The idea of educated individual.
Hebdige
Artefacts
Goode, Sockalingam, Brown, and Jones.
The idea of human behavior pattern integration.
Anthropological.
A people's way of life.
Sociolinguistics.
Social construction.
Culture Views in the EFL Classrooms
Description and comparison between:
Native Language
Target Language.
Culture with a capital C
Historical events.
Culture with a small C.
Ways of life and behavior.
Culture as communication
Share the language
Teacher must be able and understand:
Colloquial expressions.
Idioms
Specific Vocabulary
A cultural perspective from every angle.
Sense of functionality
Behavioural goals.
Interaction of language and social variables
Relation between language, culture, social exchange.
Conventional behaviour in common
situations
Convention created by an enviroment.
Cultural connotations of words
and phrases.
Culture as communication.
Evaluative statements about society.
People from one culture evaluate another culture.
Attitudes toward other
cultures.
ideas or preconceptions towards the target culture.
How is culture tought in FLT?
Galloway
Four f
Folk dances
Festivals
Fairs
Food
Tour guide.
Identification of capitals, cities, monuments.
By the approach
Sporadic lectures or bits of behavior selected indiscriminantly to emphasize sharp differences.
The Frankenstein approach
Take information everywhere.
a taco from here, a flamenco dancer from here, a gaucho from here, etc
Multiculturality and English Textbooks
Equality
Lifestyle
The Textbook as Discourse
Why?
Captures the symbolism that is spread across multiple language used in the books.
Content transmitted to the learner.
Methodology
1st Stage
Identify common approaches
Criteria
Cultural aspects
2nd Stage
The analysis. Identify cultural representation.
Criteria
Semantic Fields
General topics
References to the multicultural world.
Cultural group around the world.
References to the social world.
Social behavior.
Characters and characterization.
Careful observation of the people introduced in the text.
Icons presented in the book.
Photos, pictures, graphs.
Lexical choice and expresions.
Specific vocabulary.
Cultere by Tomalin and Stemplesk
Behaviors
Customs, habits, clothing, foods, recreation.
Products
Literature, folklore, art, music, artifacts.
Beliefs
Ideas, Values and institutions.
Analysis Categories
1st Category
Subject representation through stereotypes
Social group representation
Individual role: Male vs Female
2nd Category
Lifestyle
Consumerism
cult to body
