An Analysis of Two Turkish EFL Books in Terms of Cultural Aspects

Arslan, Sezen

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.10.049

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“…The writer imbued Western ideology in the content of the textbook as hidden curriculum to westernize the minds of the learners (Shah et al, 2013). Dominance of the target culture has been found in the studies conducted by Arslan (2016) and Faris (2014) in Cianjur, West Java. Richards (2001) states that commercialized textbooks do not cater the needs and interest of the learners in a particular country and area where the high selling is the ultimate motive.…”

Section: Cultural Categorymentioning

confidence: 88%

Investigating cultural contents in English language teaching materials through textbook evaluation

Arshad

Shah

Ahmad

2020

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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The shift in the status of English as a lingua franca has challenged native-speaker culture in English language teaching and learning. That is why it is not enough to expose language learners through monoculture language teaching. Rather being communicatively competent, learners may require inter-cultural understanding. Therefore, the aim of this research is to investigate the representation of cultures through different senses in Oxford Progressive English (OPE), Level-10 (Rachel Redford, 2016). As OPE caters the needs of Pakistani language learners, it is hypothesized that learners’ source culture prevails more than other two cultures (i.e. international, and target). To confirm this hypothesis, a detailed content analysis of cultural senses (prevailed in OPE) is carried out through Adaskou, Britten and Fahsi (1990). The results show that the frequency of reading texts in OPE is highly imbued with learners’ target culture that is followed by the international culture, and least by learners’ source culture. Moreover, culturally neutral texts lack in inter-cultural understanding, and appear to be disseminated to marginalize L2 learners from target and international cultures.

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Section: Cultural Categorymentioning

confidence: 88%

Investigating cultural contents in English language teaching materials through textbook evaluation

Arshad

Shah

Ahmad

2020

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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“…The uniqueness of this learning model is supported learning by an understanding of German culture derived from the information contained in the audio but still upholds its own culture as a medium of comparison and equality of understanding concepts. (Arslan, 2016;Dimova, 2011) suggests that understanding the culture of language learned by a student is a very useful manifestation of knowledge to help them understand information. Learning culture while learning a language is a unique thing that can make learners as multicultural human beings.…”

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Improving German Listening Competence by the NURS Teaching Model

2021

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Abstract. Listening is a receptive language competence named as the beginning of the catching on information, and it will be helpfully on the ideas developing. This study is a classroom action research (CAR) and aimed at German listening competence increase of students by implementing the NURS teaching model. NURS is an abbreviation of Nature, Unique, Relevant, and Situational. It is a didactic, constructively, metacognitive, humanly, intercultural, instructional, and technological-based learning procedure. Kemmis and Taggar model consisting of planning, action, observation, and reflection for every cycle, was utilized to implement this CAR in the German educational department at the Faculty of Language and Literature 25 students in the second semester as the research sample with two circles. The syllabus, teaching plan, student activity sheet, and listening formative test were implemented as the research instrument. The data analyzed by using percentage techniques. The result shows that the average student's German listening competence in the first cycle is 46. After they learned in the second, they could not be in minimum score standard 75 because their average score is 61. Their competence percentage increased by 35.16% to 81.16. Another important thing about using the NURS teaching model on learning German is the positive effect on the teacher's teaching skills, like management of teaching, time, and how to make students more enthusiastic during the learning process. It can be concluded that the NURS teaching model can improve the student's German listening competence in the German educational department at the Faculty of Language and Literature of Makassar State University. Keywords: Classroom Action Research, NURS Teaching Model, German, Listening Competence

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“…By text types, the study follows what Stubb (1996) describes as "conventional ways of meaning: powerful, goal-oriented language activities, socially recognized types of texts, which form patterns of meaning in social world […] an essential concept in purpose […] for audience" (p. 11). Stubb's remarkability rests on the assumptions that the assignment given to a text to do determines the way of its construct as well as deployment, and that a user of language is culturally conscious of every text employed for excitement of feelings and imagination of events (Goddard, 2011;Kramsch & Zhu Hua, 2016;Kahraman, 2016;Arslana, 2017).…”

Section: Theoretical Stancementioning

confidence: 99%

Advertising Communication: Constructing Meaning Potential through Disjunctive Grammar

Dalamu

2018

anagramas rumbos sentidos comun.

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Communication through language, irrespective of the model of its structure and deployment, entails the making of meanings. Publicity professionals seem to understand that meaning making in communicating the target audience does not need to be either clausal or sentential-dependent. Meaning productions can be pungent with fragmented structures. Thus, the ways that advertising experts produce meaning through disjunctive grammar was the concern of this study. The analysis considered twelve advertisements of beverages and telecommunications for examination to explicate meanings. The Hallidayan 'below the clause' was the conceptual facilitator of meanings in texts. The application of technological tools of the table and graph assisted in computing the frequencies of the disjunctive facilities of the texts. The study drew a conclusion that nominal group is the most employed device to fascinate readers to consumption. Having observed that advertisers utilized health matters, beliefs and values, monetary gifts, contents of commodities, globalization, etc. to persuade consumers, the study suggested that advertisements could continue to deploy punctuated structures to reveal the true contents of the advertised products for proper decision making in the products' patronization. Such behavior of disjunctive deployment could also stimulate the public from being recalcitrant to reading advertising artifacts, as convincing the public, in one way or another, is actually the goal of persuasion in advertising.Comunicación publicitaria: construcción de potencial de significado a través de la gramática disyuntiva Resumen Cualquiera que sea el modelo que guíe su estructura y desarrollo, la comunicación a través del lenguaje implica la creación de significados. Los publicistas parecen entender que la creación de significado en la comunicación con el público objetivo no necesita depender de la cláusula o dea la oración. Las producciones de significado pueden ser mordaces y con estructuras fragmentadas; con esto, el estudio que dio origen al presente artículo se interesó por la forma en que los expertos en publicidad producen significado a través de la gramática disyuntiva. Se analizaron doce anuncios de bebidas y telecomunicaciones, en aras de explicar los significados. El concepto de "debajo de la cláusula", acuñado por Halliday, fue el facilitador conceptual de los significados en los textos. El uso de herramientas tecnológicas como tablas y gráficos ayudó a calcular las frecuencias de las instalaciones disyuntivas de los textos. Se llegó a la conclusión de que la frase nominal es el dispositivo más empleado para interesar a los lectores en el consumo. Habiéndose observado que los anunciantes utilizaban asuntos de salud, creencias y valores, regalos monetarios, contenidos de productos básicos, globalización, etc. para persuadir a los consumidores, el estudio sugirió que los anuncios podrían seguir empleando construcciones con signos de puntuación para revelar los verdaderos contenidos de los productos anunciados, de tal forma que se ...

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An Analysis of Two Turkish EFL Books in Terms of Cultural Aspects

Cited by 17 publications

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Investigating cultural contents in English language teaching materials through textbook evaluation

Investigating cultural contents in English language teaching materials through textbook evaluation

Improving German Listening Competence by the NURS Teaching Model

Advertising Communication: Constructing Meaning Potential through Disjunctive Grammar

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