Multimodality of cultural content in ELT materials for young learners.
Cultural content is incorporated into EL materials to enrich linguistic content. The paper focuses on English materials as cultural artefacts analysed in terms of multimodality. The aim is to identify the most important multimodal aspects of cultural content offered in English course books for earl...
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University of Silesia Press
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Cultural content is incorporated into EL materials to enrich linguistic content. The paper focuses on English materials as cultural artefacts analysed in terms of multimodality. The aim is to identify the most important multimodal aspects of cultural content offered in English course books for early language education. Following the multimodal discourse analysis, the image–language relations presented in the culture sections are examined. The paper seeks to address two following questions: What is the multimodality of cultural content in English course books for young learners? What are the image-language relations involved in the construction of cultural content? The project involves an analysis of nine course books currently used in teaching English to young learners in Polish primary schools. The data will be collected during the evaluation studies, which here are both quantitative and qualitative in nature. The study is based on a set of universal, content-specific, multimodal and intermodal criteria. It is hoped that the results from the research project will enrich the process of ELT materials design in terms of multimodality. They will support the need for developing multimodal (visual) literacy through multicultural education in early language education.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7e3e3456717c4da386c74163245ac72f2022-12-22T00:56:15ZengUniversity of Silesia PressTheory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition2450-54552451-21252017-06-0131Multimodality of cultural content in ELT materials for young learners.Maria Dorota Stec0University of Silesia Cultural content is incorporated into EL materials to enrich linguistic content. The paper focuses on English materials as cultural artefacts analysed in terms of multimodality. The aim is to identify the most important multimodal aspects of cultural content offered in English course books for early language education. Following the multimodal discourse analysis, the image–language relations presented in the culture sections are examined. The paper seeks to address two following questions: What is the multimodality of cultural content in English course books for young learners? What are the image-language relations involved in the construction of cultural content? The project involves an analysis of nine course books currently used in teaching English to young learners in Polish primary schools. The data will be collected during the evaluation studies, which here are both quantitative and qualitative in nature. The study is based on a set of universal, content-specific, multimodal and intermodal criteria. It is hoped that the results from the research project will enrich the process of ELT materials design in terms of multimodality. They will support the need for developing multimodal (visual) literacy through multicultural education in early language education. https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/TAPSLA/article/view/5161multimodalityELT materialscultural contentvisual literacyyoung learners. |
| spellingShingle | Maria Dorota Stec Multimodality of cultural content in ELT materials for young learners. Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition multimodality ELT materials cultural content visual literacy young learners. |
| title | Multimodality of cultural content in ELT materials for young learners. |
| title_full | Multimodality of cultural content in ELT materials for young learners. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Multimodality of cultural content in ELT materials for young learners. |
| title_short | Multimodality of cultural content in ELT materials for young learners. |
| title_sort | multimodality of cultural content in elt materials for young learners |
| topic | multimodality ELT materials cultural content visual literacy young learners. |
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