Cultural Linguistics and ELT Curriculum

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-967725-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: Cultural Linguistics

This book accumulates analyses and evaluation evidence about the cultural conceptualizations in English language teaching (ELT) textbooks, framed by cultural linguistics. It considers conceptualizations of cultural constructs such as family, gender, beauty, and the home, within ELT curricula. Despite the strength of cultural linguistics as a theoretical and analytical movement, few volumes in applied linguistics have sought to provide data-based evidence about the application of cultural linguistics to language teaching curricula. The volume addresses recent issues in cultural linguistics and presents the associated implications for curriculum planning, materials development, and textbook evaluation. The aim of the volume is to enhance understanding of ELT curricula through a cultural linguistics lens. Relevant to cultural theorists, education experts working in ELT, and linguists in all language areas, this is a landmark volume marrying applied linguistics to cultural linguists in English language education studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alemi, Minoo

Tajeddin, Zia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. ELT curriculum from a Cultural Linguistics perspective.- Chapter 2. Creating space for meta-cultural competence in ELT learning materials: The case of tertiary education in Serbia.- Chapter 3. Cultural Linguistics and ELT materials: Exploring religious conceptualizations in Iranian locally-developed textbooks. Chapter 4. The conceptualizations of home in (Eastern) German ELT textbooks.- Chapter 5. Cultural conceptualization of gender in Iranian high school English textbooks.

Über Autor(innen)

Minoo Alemi is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch, Iran. She is the founder of Robot-Assisted Language Learning (RALL) and the co-founder of Social Robotics in Iran. She is the associate editor of  (John Benjamins) and sits on the editorial/review boards of many journals, including , , and . Her areas of interest include materials development, teacher education, interlanguage pragmatics, and robot-assisted language education. She is the co-editor of (with Zia Tajeddin, Routledge, 2021).

Zia Tajeddin is a professor of Applied Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. He co-edits two international journals:  (John Benjamins) and (University of Toronto Press). He is the co-editor of the Springer book series of . His research interests center on teacher education, L2 pragmatics, and EIL/ELF pedagogy. His recently published books include s (with Carol Griffiths, Cambridge University Press, 2020),  (with Minoo Alemi, Routledge, 2021),  (with Atsuko Watanabe, Multilingual Matters, 2022), (with Carol Griffiths, Springer, 2023), and  (with Bedrettin Yazan, Routledge, 2024).