Evaluating Intercultural Awareness Raising in Two Estonian EFL Secondary School Textbooks
Evaluating Intercultural Awareness Raising in Two Estonian EFL Secondary School Textbooks
Author(s): Liljana Skopinskaja, Suliko Liiv, Regina Beilmann, Raimond VirsaSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Finno-Ugrian studies, Philology
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: culture-and-language instruction; local and global coursebooks; Estonian upper secondary school level; English as a foreign language;
Summary/Abstract: Nowadays teachers have rarely an opportunity to work within amonocultural context, and rather than teach English, they have to sensitizestudents to the cultural component of a multitude of Englishes as well asstudents’ own cultures. Much of this information is derived from coursebooks.The article tries to fill the gap in the literature in the field of coursebookevaluation in Estonia by analysing intercultural awareness raising inthe two local and global EFL coursebooks currently employed in Estonianupper secondary schools. We use a qualitative study with methods of textualanalysis to examine how authors introduce interculturality in textbooks.Our findings show that what the coursebooks claim to be providing maynot necessarily be what is delivered.
Journal: Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis
- Issue Year: 3/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 186-207
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English, Estonian