3. Ideology

Concept:

• Ideology in language teaching materials

Guiding questions for the discussion:

• How do language teaching materials promote particular values and ideologies? What impact might this have on the learners (and teachers) who use these materials? How can language teaching practitioners develop sensitivity to the promotion of ideology through materials, and what steps can they take to address issues they uncover?

Participants (alphabetical order):

• Dr Eoin Jordan (host), University of St Andrews
• Dr Ahmar Mahboob, University of Sydney – also a Global Fellow at University of St Andrews at the time of the recording
• Alison Malcolm-Smith, University of St Andrews
• Dr Amritesh Singh, University of St Andrews

Sources referred to in the discussion:

• https://www.academia.edu/5318114/Identity_management_language_variation_and_English_language_textbooks_focus_on_Pakistan
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Multimodal%20Critical%20Discourse%20Analysis%20of%20three%20Mexican%20national%20English%20Textbooks_0.pdf
• http://www.reflectiveinquiry.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/farrell-kennedy-2019-RP.pdf