Kulttuurinen ja kielellinen moninaisuus varhaisen kielenopetuksen oppikirjoissa
Cultural and linguistic diversity in early foreign language learning textbooks
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varhainen kielenopetus, kriittinen kulttuurienvälinen kasvatus, monikielisyys, oppikirjatAbstrakti
We examined how cultural and linguistic diversity is manifested in early language teaching textbooks. Our data consist of a set of five textbooks for early language teaching in Finland. Qualitative content analysis was used to analyse both the text and the illustrations in the textbooks. Our analysis was guided by the theoretical underpinnings of critical intercultural education and broad views of multilingualism/translanguaging. The results show that the textbooks do not provide a very diverse picture of cultures as they contain a lot of stereotypical cultural content. The textbooks also focus mainly on the target language and thus do little to promote multilingualism. We found only three activities in which different languages were compared and used in the learning of the target language. More attention should therefore be paid to the content of textbooks and how they are used, as they produce and maintain ideologies and perceptions of culture and language.
