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Identity And Multimodality Of Cultural Content In Elt Coursebooks For Yls

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Questions Incredible English 1 Oxford Explorers 1 English Quest 1 My World 1
Topics The school show, p. 11 School, p.4-5 School Zone, p.6 My classroom, p.16
Types of characters white and black families, old and young, toy, bird boy, girl, dog boy, girl, cat, Digi dragon boy, girl
Elements of language members of family (10 new words) school vocabulary(6 new words) school vocabulary(8 new words) instructions in L1 and L2, school vocabulary, functions of thank you (5 new words)
Context for language presentation place: entrance to the show room at schoolmusic: song, chant, integrated content place: imagery bedroom at homemusic: chants, playsintegrated content place: imaginary bedroom at homemusic: songsintegrated content place: authentic classroom abroad (Latin country)music: chantsintegrated content
Visuals drawings, bright colours, many detailed elements drawing, bright colours, images of real objects drawing, yellowish, greenish colours detailed authentic picture, colourful, speech bubble (L1, L2)
Modality:image-language relationship layout: double-page, intermodal integrationcomposition: projected meaning: locutionframing: unbounded, contextualised layout: double-page, intermodal integrationcomposition: expansion of meaning: concurrence – expositionframing: bound, limited layout: double-page, intermodal integration, expanded, instated, co-locatedcomposition: projected meaning: mental (perception and cognition)framing: bound, limited layout: double-page, projected meaning (locution: speech bubbles)composition: expansion of meaning, concurrence with exemplificationframing: unbounded, contextualised
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