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A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Swedish teaching materials for English / En multimodal kritisk diskursanalys av svenska läromedel för engelska

Education in the Swedish school system should aim to assist pupils in the development of fundamental values. This study investigates to what extent different groups of people are represented within two textbooks for English language teaching (ELT), produced in Sweden and commonly used in Swedish schools and how these representations correlate with the values indicated in the curriculum. Additionally, this study explores if textbooks designed for ELT can be adapted and used as a resource in the Arts classroom for multimodal representation analysis. The study used a multimodal critical discourse analysis with a social semiotic approach to address these questions, looking at the textbooks' textual and visual elements. The result is addressed both quantitatively and qualitatively and showed that, while women were shown in active roles, white men were overrepresented in both the visual and textual representations and people of colour of both genders were underrepresented. The results imply that ELT textbooks have some ways to go in order to meet the representation demands that the curriculum sets and that more research needs to address how to more accurately and frequently represent different groups of people within ELT teaching materials.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-41075
Date January 2021
CreatorsVarga, Kate, Cato, Ronja
PublisherMalmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM), Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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