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Publication details [#60328]
Awayed-Bishara, Muzna. 2015. Analyzing the cultural content of materials used for teaching English to high school speakers of Arabic in Israel. Discourse & Society 26 (5) : 517–542.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper explores whether the cultural content of English textbooks employed in Israel, fits the Palestinian Arab English learner. Seven discursive devices are distinguished that serve to raise English learners permeated with Western minded Jewish-Zionist ideology, whilst propagating and maintaining hegemonic ideology. As English textbooks in Israel appear to trivialize the Palestinian Arab minority, its culture and general traditions, they generate a negative learning experience for Arab high school students.