🎓 CIRCE Seminar: Textbooks, ideologies and language education. An overview from different countries' teaching materials Dr. Francesca Gallina, University of Pisa, Italy

Date: February 24, 2025 Time: 16:30 – 17:30 (CET) Venue: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors

The CIRCE project https://www.circe-project.eu is pleased to announce the online seminar ‘Textbooks, ideologies and language education. An overview from different countries' teaching materials’ organized in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena, H2IOSC project and CNR ILC.

Abstract:

Textbooks play a pivotal role in language education, even in the era of internet and AI. For both learners and teachers, textbooks are something they use daily in the processes of learning and teaching, in the classroom or at home. According to Curdt-Christiansen and Weninger (2015) textbooks are sociocultural materials, they have the power to represent and position ideas, values and beliefs, namely they can legitimate an ideology, reflect a particular ideology and in this perspective, they can shape identity of learners. To explore textbooks as sociocultural products, we will analyze a sample of textbooks from different countries and focus on the following aspects: plurilingualism, theoretical approach, language activities, metalinguistic analysis and variation.  Examples from textbooks will be presented and discussed.

About the speaker:

Francesca Gallina is Associate Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pisa. She completed her PhD in Linguistics and didactic of Italian as L2 in 2009 with a dissertation on the development of the lexical competence of learners of Italian as a second language at the University for Foreigners of Siena. Her main research interest areas are: educational linguistics, L2 vocabulary acquisition, language contact and multilingualism, impact of language policies on the development of L2 teaching and learning processes. Her last publications are “Italiano di contatto e didattica plurilingue” (Cesati, 2021),  “Osservare e valutare la competenza lessicale in italiano L2” (2022).

The seminar will be hosted on the H2IOSC Training Environment to allow everyone interested to access a registration of the event.

The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register.

Further details and the link to register here: https://www.circe-project.eu/circe-online-seminar-series/