Recipient design in American English File: A discourse analysis based on Gee's model

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1 دانشجوی دکتری زبانشناسی، گروه زبانشناسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.

2 دانشیار زبانشناسی، گروه زبانشناسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.

3 استاد گروه زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران.

چکیده

One of the highly recommended and largely used EFL textbooks in Iran is American English File (AEF), published by Oxford University Press. To understand its potential effect on readers’ viewpoints and discover the underlying mindsets, the discourse of American English File 3, third edition, was analyzed based on James Paul Gee’s framework (2018), with a focus on his concept of “recipient design”, which involves how the readers of a text are supposed to read and react in certain ways and shape some aspects of their identity. Therefore, ten texts were selected from different parts of the book. To capture the recipient design of the texts, the highlighted and marginalized social goods, and Discourses in the texts were identified. Then, the readers' represented identity, the major actions of the texts and the potential effects on the readers were discovered. The findings revealed that the discourse of the textbook represents the issues of contemporary metropolitan life, reflecting the values of individualism including individual success, health and achievements. This study contributes to how language teaching materials influence the identity of readers.

کلیدواژه‌ها

عنوان مقاله [English]

Recipient design in American English File: A discourse analysis based on Gee's model

نویسندگان [English]

  • Narges Lajevardi 1
  • Negar Davari Ardakani 2
  • Sasan Baleghizadeh 3
1 Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature & Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Letters and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature & Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
چکیده [English]

One of the highly recommended and largely used EFL textbooks in Iran is American English File (AEF), published by Oxford University Press. To understand its potential effect on readers’ viewpoints and discover the underlying mindsets, the discourse of American English File 3, third edition, was analyzed based on James Paul Gee’s framework (2018), with a focus on his concept of “recipient design”, which involves how the readers of a text are supposed to read and react in certain ways and shape some aspects of their identity. Therefore, ten texts were selected from different parts of the book. To capture the recipient design of the texts, the highlighted and marginalized social goods, and Discourses in the texts were identified. Then, the readers' represented identity, the major actions of the texts and the potential effects on the readers were discovered. The findings revealed that the discourse of the textbook represents the issues of contemporary metropolitan life, reflecting the values of individualism including individual success, health and achievements. This study contributes to how language teaching materials influence the identity of readers.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Language Teaching
  • Textbooks
  • Identity
  • Social Good
  • Activity

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