(DE)KONSTRUKCIJA PATRIJARHALNIH OBRAZACA U UDŽBENICIMA: KOMPARATIVNA ANALIZA UDŽBENIKA ITALIJANSKOG JEZIKA KAO STRANOG I SRPSKOG JEZIKA KAO STRANOG
(DE)KONSTRUKCIJA PATRIJARHALNIH OBRAZACA U UDŽBENICIMA: KOMPARATIVNA ANALIZA UDŽBENIKA ITALIJANSKOG JEZIKA KAO STRANOG I SRPSKOG JEZIKA KAO STRANOG

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, foreign language textbooks are interpreted from a social constructivist perspective, as sociocultural products that contain not only specific subject knowledge, but also social norms, cultural values and ideologies (Curdt-Christiansen 2). From the point of view of critical discourse analysis ideology is a construct based upon assumptions and beliefs that reinforce, reproduce and legitimate asymmetrical power relations between different social groups. In line with this, we employ CDA to examine the presence of patriarchal ideologies in the depiction of the private sphere in a corpus composed of five textbooks of Italian as a Foreign Language and four textbooks of Serbian as a Foreign Language. Since the issue of patriarchal legacy in FL textbooks in previous research is primarily addressed in relation to English FL textbooks, one of the objectives of the present study is to shed a light on Italian FL textbooks that are insufficiently explored, and to compare them to Serbian FL textbooks, that are especially relevant as they were until now never approached from the perspective of gender. All the textbooks are employed in the specific educational context of foreign language teaching and learning in the post-secondary education in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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