Book Title

Cultural Knowledge and Values in English Language Teaching Materials: (Multimodal) Representations and Stakeholders

Editors

Tao Xiong, Dezheng Feng (Department of English and Communication), Guangwei Hu (Department of English and Communication)

Publisher

Springer

Year of Publication

2022

ISBN

9789811919343

Introduction of the book

This book provides a contextualized and balanced look into the timely topic of values in English Language Teaching (ELT) materials with a primary focus on the Chinese context. It features three distinct conceptual and methodological perspectives, namely, perceptions of stakeholders such as material writers, teachers and students, multimodal construction of values, and textual representation of values. It is a valuable resource for those interested in the social, cultural, moral, and ideological dimensions of English education in general, and in the textual and multimodal construction of values in language teaching materials in particular.

Contents

1 Researching Cultural Knowledge and Values in English
Language Teaching Textbooks: Representation, Multimodality,
and Stakeholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … 1
Tao Xiong, Dezheng Feng, and Guangwei Hu
Part I (Multimodal) Representations
2 Values in Business English Textbooks: A Multimodal Analysis
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Yan Xu and Dezheng Feng
3 Designing Values in English as a Foreign Language Textbooks:
A Social Semiotic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...41
Tao Xiong and Guangwei Hu
4 English and Englishness: A Multimodal Analysis of English
Language Teaching Materials in Contemporary China . . . . . . . . . . . . ….. 63
Huawei Shi and Fei Victor Lim
5 A Comparative Study of the Visual Representation of Gender
in Two Series of Secondary English as a Foreign Language
Textbooks in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Ziyu Song and Tao Xiong
6 Culture in Textbooks: A Content Analysis of College English
Teaching Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Lina Dong and Bob Adamson
Part II Stakeholders
7 Teachers’ Engagement with Cultural Knowledge and Values
in Business English Textbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 129
Yue Peng and Tao Xiong
8 Constructing Values in English Language Teaching Materials:
Voice from the Writers of a Tertiary English as a Foreign
Language Textbook Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Jinfen Xu and Wenbo Liu
9 Multimodality, Ethnography and the English Language
Teaching Textbook: Negotiating Heteronormativity in Visual
Representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Germán Canale and Martina Fernández Fasciolo

* Owners of respective book covers are credited. Book covers are for reference only. FH is unable to accept responsibility of any inaccurate information.