Teaching Culture in Introductory Foreign Language Textbooks

✍ Scribed by Carol A. Chapelle (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 281
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book demonstrates how foreign language textbook analysis can inform future materials development to improve foreign language teaching. Through chronological analysis of French textbooks in the United States, this book explores the representations of Canada and Quebec in French beginner textbooks produced from 1960 to 2010. Chapelle couples a large collection of 65 textbooks with a social-semiotic qualitative analysis of the genres, language and images that communicate Quebec's cultural narrative to learners. Findings about the amount and type of content are presented by decade to track the trends in foreign language teaching and changes in Quebec’s representation. Particular attention is given to how language politics is presented to students through text and images. This book will be of interest to scholars of Canadian Studies, Quebec Studies and Second Language Acquisition, as well as foreign language materials developers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
The Significance of Culture in Language Teaching....Pages 1-35
Québec’s Cultural Narrative and French Textbooks....Pages 37-73
Québec Content in Text....Pages 75-122
Québec Content in Images....Pages 123-179
A Closer Look at Language Politics....Pages 181-212
Strengthening Cultural Content in First-Year Textbooks....Pages 213-247
Back Matter....Pages 249-263

✦ Subjects

Romance Languages;Language Teaching;Cultural Studies;Linguistics, general;Teaching and Teacher Education;Language Education

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