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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-8616
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Germanic Languages & Literatures
Degree Type
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2020
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
Elementary German language textbooks today lack diverse representations of gender, social class, race, and ability. This thesis argues that the exclusion of those categories of diversity impedes the objectives of the communicative learning approach for students in first-year German courses. It examines research on diversity in textbooks with a focus on the concept of the “third space”, and shows how these findings apply to German students. An analysis of chapters from three German textbooks published between 2018 and 2020: Netzwerk neu A1, Impuls Deutsch 1, and Grenzenlos Deutsch provides specific examples of how images, texts, dialogs, grammar, and vocabulary exercises could be designed or redesigned to make the German language classroom a space in which all students are able to communicate and express themselves.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/17603540
First Advisor
Kerstin Mueller Dembling
Second Advisor
Sara Jackson
Recommended Citation
Keenan, Emmalie, "Inclusion and Exclusion of Gender, Social Class, Race and Ability in Elementary German Textbooks" (2020). Masters Theses. 926.
https://doi.org/10.7275/17603540
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/926
Included in
German Language and Literature Commons, Language and Literacy Education Commons, Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons