Language, Lesson, Family: A Critical Overview of Family Representation in English Textbooks
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Textbooks are crucial mediums for teaching language and transmitting culture, with great influence on how students view social constructs, specifically the notion of family. This paper explores the portrayal of family in the third grade English textbook and activity book officially used in Turkish state primary schools. The research analyses textual and visual content using a qualitative content analysis methodology guided by critical discourse theory to identify dominant patterns in family representations. According to the findings, there is little representation of alternative family models or cultural diversity, mostly portraying nuclear family patterns. The study argues for more inclusive and critically constructed content in early language education and draws attention to the broader contextual role that textbooks play beyond language learning.
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