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An Ecocritical Approach to English Language Teaching

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  • Dil ve Edebiyat Eğitimi Dergisi

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  • 2013

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This paper aims to examine ELT coursebooks from an ecocritical perspective to find out how nature is represented in ELT coursebooks that are used in EFL classrooms worldwide. Coursebooks are laden with political, ideological and cultural codes and meanings. In recent years, great importance has been attached to ecostudies which aim to draw attention to and raise awareness about the problems and issues about nature and environment. In order to be more effective and inclusive with an emphasis on the interrelatedness and interdependence of different academic disciplines and fields of study, interdisciplinary studies have been encouraged in ecostudies. Global ecological enlightenment can be rendered possible for people through education by acquiring an ecological self and by recognizing how closely their human lives are linked to the non-human world. So, it will be a worthwhile attempt to find a way to integrate ecology into ELT to put it to useful service in reinforcing ecological consciousness. This study sets out to spark an interest in the potential of ELT coursebooks to generate green ideas when an ecologically-sensitive curriculum is implemented. For this purpose, this study has analyzed the discourses in the 7 coursebooks Cutting Edge, Global, Language Leader, New Headway, Language in Use, Straight Forward, New Inside Out in terms of the systematic language choices made in the constructions of nature to find out in what ways nature and natural entities are re/presented and how different representations of nature and natural entities reveal certain extra-textual realities including sociocultural norms and ideologies.
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