THE DISCOURSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS
Keywords:
Environmental awareness, Discourse analysis, English textbooks, Junior high school, Indonesian educationAbstract
Through the usage of English textbooks in Indonesian junior high school education, this article explored the environmental awareness discourse that is included in such textbooks. The primary purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of this book in delivering environmental awareness discourse to students in the seventh grade of junior high school. We focused our multimodal critical discourse analysis on the topics and discursive capacities of the visuals and texts that were included in the textbook. This study makes use of the kinds of environmental discourse that were established by Curdt-Christiansen (2021) in order to evaluate the extent to which environmental-related literature inspire significant environmental understanding. The outcome of this study underlines the significance of fostering environmentally responsible conduct among Indonesian students and raising their awareness of environmental issues. As a result of the study, recommendations have been made for both the creators of textbooks (authors and publishers) and the consumers of textbooks (parents, teachers, and school stakeholders) to critically increase their environmental knowledge.
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