What do genres do in the EFL coursebook?

Drawing on principles from Systemic Functional Grammar and the closely related fields of Genre Studies and Multimodality, this presentation explores how social practices enter the coursebook via genres and how genres are brought to life through the deployment of various multimodal resources. Reference will be made to corpus data analysis and findings obtained. Our claim is that genre-based, multimodal-oriented analyses of EFL coursebooks can provide useful information for teachers with a genuinely communicative social perspective.https://www.faapi.org.ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FAAPI2015.pdfFil: Liruso, Susana. Universidada de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; ArgentinaFil: Bollati, Marisel. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Argentina.Fil: Requena Pablo. University of Montana; Estados Unidos.Estudios Generales del Lenguaj

The young learner's textbook as a visual model of interaction

This presentation examines how multimodal resources -images of school-age children- are deployed in EFL Young Learner´s textbooks. A number of aspects of interactive meaning such as perspective, social distance, lighting and color (among others) are addressed from the point of view of how they contribute to modeling patterns of communication and mediating language learning. The importance of developing visual awareness and multimodal competence is discussed.http://www.faapi.org.ar/congreso-faapi/Fil: Liruso, Susana. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Bollati, Marisel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Fil: Requena, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Lenguas; Argentina.Estudios Generales del Lenguaj