Critiquing Culture in Reading Materials Used by ESL Private Middle Schools in the Philippines: A Critical Literacy Perspective

• Main Authors: Perfecto, Marianne Rachel G, Paterno, Jhoanna Michelle G
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Comprehension; Critical literacy; Critical reading; Critical stance; Ideology; Textbooks
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/9; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-63677-1_3
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This chapter shows to which extent two textbooks published by one of the leading publishers in the Philippines realize their goal of promoting a more critical approach to reading. Guided by the principles of critical literacy, content analysis reveals that despite the wide range of universally ackno...