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Poetry, ideology and heteroglossic realities in language textbooks (2024)

Ali Shah, W., Umrani, S., & Lashari, A. (2024). Poetry, ideology and heteroglossic realities in language textbooks. Language, Culture and Curriculum, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2024.2342899

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Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Ali Shah, Waqar; Umrani, Sumera; Lashari, Asaduallah

Lehti tai sarja: Language, Culture and Curriculum

ISSN: 0790-8318

eISSN: 1747-7573

Julkaisuvuosi: 2024

Ilmestymispäivä: 19.04.2024

Volyymi: Early online

Kustantaja: Routledge

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2024.2342899

Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Avoimesti saatavilla

Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: Osittain avoin julkaisukanava

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/94427

Tiivistelmä

Using literature, more specifically poetry in English as F/L2 has grown over time. However, scholars disagree as to whether it makes any difference to language learning or what functions it serves. The purpose of this study is to examine what discourses poetry embodies, what identities it shapes, and whether it can confront dominant ideologies in English language textbooks in Pakistan. Based on Fairclough’s dialectical-relational approach and Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogism and heteroglossia, we analysed 12 Pakistani English language textbooks. Findings suggest poetry texts embody a variety of ideological themes, including linguistic sexism, nationalistic sentiments, and religious and spiritual ethos. These discourses tend to shape learners’ identities. In addition, we also found references to poems that offer learners alternative perspectives and ways of being. In certain poems, for instance, curiosity, questioning, struggle, and recognising truth as a multifaceted entity are evident, allowing spaces for heteroglossia. Using these insights, teachers, curriculum developers and textbook writers will be able to better reflect on their pedagogical approaches and content embedded in textbooks to ensure justice, equality, and inclusion for students from a variety of socioeconomic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.

YSO-asiasanat: ideologiat; lyriikka; kieltenopetus; oppikirjat

Vapaat asiasanat: poetry; language learning; ideologies; heteroglossia; textbooks

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OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

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