Multimodal resources in textbooks: powerful motivators

Selected Readings XXXVII FAAPI Conference "Engaging, Inspiring, Empowering: Research on Motivation and Autonomy"

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Lugar: Bariloche; Año: 2012; p. 157 - 161

The study reported in this paper is part of a larger research project designed to explore several aspects of foreign language textbooks from the perspective of systemic-functional linguistics (SFL). We explore different components such as rubrics, charts, images, framing devices and book covers in six EFL textbooks used in Argentina from beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. In this paper we report on findings regarding the analysis of charts, images and framing devices and show examples from that corpus.