A critical discourse and content analysis of the textbook “High school English 2” for 10th grade students of EFL in Chile

Abstract

The aim of this investigation was to discover multicultural representations throughthe use of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Content Analysis methods. This projectanalyzed the multicultural representations encountered in the English textbook “High schoolEnglish 2” for 10th grade, sponsored by the Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC).Specifically, the units 3 ‘Your time to shine’and4 ‘A Day in the life’.Therefore, we focusedon the texts, images and audios encountered within the corpus of the previously mentionedunits.In order to accomplish the main aim of this researchand collect the necessary datafor this project, we decided to analyze the corpus of the units using not only CDA but alsocontent analysis, the following dimensions were analyzed: linguistics, visual, auditory andsocio-cultural representations. Besides, it encountered aspects such as: holidays, traditions,adjectives with positive connotations about cultures, countries, and cities, among others. Inaddition, it has been elaborating a pedagogical proposal to contribute as support to thematerials for teachers of EFL classrooms with the purpose of being helpful for Englishlearning acquisition and raising of cultural awareness.Keywords:Multicultural education, EFL textbooks analysis,Multimodal materials,Critical Discourse Analysis, EFL classrooms, Multiculturalism, Interculturalism,Multilingualism, Cultural awareness, Content analysis.