Infusing moral education into English language teaching: An ontogenetic analysis of social values in EFL textbooks in Hong Kong

Infusing moral education into English language teaching: An ontogenetic analysis of social values in EFL textbooks in Hong Kong

• Feng, William Dezheng Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40(4), 458-473, 2019

Routledge

2019

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBB Teaching Conditions & Facilities, Teaching Materials
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
    • GBC Teaching Methods of Listening, Conversation, Speech & Their Outcomes

Moral Education English Language Education Social Values Social Semiotics EFL Textbooks Multimodal Construction Ontogenetic Development

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education
• Secondary Education

This paper investigates the representation of social values and their ontogenetic development in English as a foreign language textbooks in Hong Kong. Adopting a social semiotic approach, it considers social values in textbooks as semantic categories which are constructed by complex semiotic discursive resources, and develops an explicit framework to model what values are selected and how the values are constructed. Analysis of 19 textbooks from Primary 1 to Secondary 4–6 shows that the social values change from the personal domain (e.g. good hygiene and healthy lifestyle), through the interpersonal domain (e.g. politeness and respect), to the altruistic concern for all mankind. The result also suggests that the textbooks are more concerned with the didactic education of good citizens than with cultivating children's critical thinking. The analytical framework and the findings can be used for the explicit instruction and critical analysis of social values in English language teaching.
[Copyright of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is the property of Routledge.]

• English

Journal Articles

• 01596306

• 10.1080/01596306.2017.1356806

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/ec2160fa

2020-03-03