Cultural evaluation of English for Today
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2020.
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10361-150612021-09-27T21:01:22Z Cultural evaluation of English for Today Jasmin, Jumana Ahmed, Sabreena Department of English and Humanities, Brac University International cultural imbalance Textbook English for Today NCTB This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2020. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-30). This study explores the local and international cultural imbalance of fifth grade English for Today textbook by NCTB. As a researcher to conduct the evaluation I have followed qualitative method and analyzed relevant articles of different countries across the world to find if there is any cultural gap or imbalance in the textbooks locally produced in Bangladesh. I have blended two theories one by Cortazzi and Jinn (1999) which refers to the cultural aspects of textbook evaluation such as social identity, interaction, belief and behaviour, socialization, stereotypes, national history, national geography, social and political institutes and finally an addition of mine is the use of images. Here I have added another theory referred by Mackey (2000) which states, the four senses of textbook evaluation such as aesthetic, semantic, pragmatic and socio-cultural. Thus this blending of theories made me come to a point where I have found less use of Mackey’s aesthetic, semantic, and pragmatic sense whereas the book only focused on socio-cultural sense. However, it still lacked to set equilibrium of both local and international culture of socio-cultural sense as well. Therefore, from the findings I can say that, the fifth grade English for Today textbook is culturally imbalanced. However, if the core cultural aspects can be considered along with the senses while republishing the textbooks then the balance can be assured. Therefore, the textbook will become a gem and language acquisition will become easier for the non-native learners of Bangladesh. Jumana Jasmin B.A. in English 2021-09-27T05:43:04Z 2021-09-27T05:43:04Z 2020 2020-12 Thesis ID: 18303030 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15061 en_US Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 40 Pages application/pdf Brac University |
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