Representations of the World in Language Textbooks
Representations of the World in Language Textbooks by Karen Risager, published by Multilingual Matters in 2018, offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing how culture, society, and the world are represented in foreign and second language learning textbooks. This edition, written in English and spanning 252 pages, provides insights into the ways language learning materials can reflect diverse perspectives and issues.
Readers will find a detailed exploration of five distinct approaches: national studies, citizenship education studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and transnational studies. Through concrete analyses of textbooks for languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Danish, and Esperanto, the book illustrates methods for uncovering representations of the world. Each analysis includes suggestions for potential supplements and changes, emphasizing the importance of addressing global diversities and challenges in language education.
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This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. The framework is transferable to other kinds of learning materials and to other subjects. The framework distinguishes between five approaches: national studies, citizenship education studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies and transnational studies. In a series of concrete analyses, the book illustrates how one can describe and uncover representations of the world in textbooks for English, German, French, Spanish, Danish and Esperanto. Each analysis is accompanied by suggestions of possible supplements and changes. The book points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.
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