Exploring Cultural Schemas in Foreign Language Education Policy (FLEP) Documents of Iran

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Language Related Research Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.52547/lrr.13.3.2

A. Dabbagh, E. Babaii, M. Atai

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Culture is an indispensable part of Foreign Language Education Policy (FLEP), especially in English Language Teaching (ELT). In addition, the spread of English around the globe has resulted in English users‟ tendency to embed their local culture in their English communication (Kirkpatrick, 2012). However, literature remains silent on culture representation in FLEP, especially in an ideologized country like Iran. To address this issue, due to lack of an explicit FLEP in Iran, the present study analyzed the cultural schemas addressed in the seven major national policy documents of Iran, namely 20-year National Vision, Comprehensive Science Roadmap, Support for Comprehensive Science Roadmap in the Domain of Languages, Cultural Engineering Document, National Curriculum, Fundamental Reform in Education, and Islamicization of Universities. Results of content analysis using MAXQDA Software unmasked Islamic-Iranian culture as the baseline for ELT in Iran. In order to further examine the representations and implications of „Islamic-Iranian culture‟ hidden in the documents, open coding, axial coding, and labeling along with constant comparative procedure revealed various Islamic cultural schemas. However, very few instances of Iranian cultural schemas were unveiled. The findings were discussed in light of the hidden curriculum and the power relations behind the extracted cultural schemas

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伊朗外语教育政策文件中的文化图式探析

文化是外语教育政策的重要组成部分，尤其是在英语教学中。此外，英语在全球范围内的传播导致英语使用者倾向于将当地文化嵌入他们的英语交流中(Kirkpatrick, 2012)。然而，文学对FLEP的文化表现保持沉默，尤其是在伊朗这样一个意识形态化的国家。为了解决这一问题，由于伊朗缺乏明确的FLEP，本研究分析了伊朗七项主要国家政策文件中涉及的文化模式，即20年国家愿景、综合科学路线图、支持语言领域综合科学路线图、文化工程文件、国家课程、教育基础改革和大学伊斯兰化。使用MAXQDA软件的内容分析结果揭示了伊斯兰-伊朗文化作为伊朗英语教学的基线。为了进一步研究隐藏在文件中的“伊斯兰-伊朗文化”的表征和含义，开放编码、轴向编码和标签以及不断的比较程序揭示了各种伊斯兰文化图式。然而，伊朗文化图式的实例很少被揭示。研究结果从隐藏的课程和被提取的文化图式背后的权力关系的角度进行了讨论

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