School of Languages and Cultures

Summer Research Program: 2020-2021

AVAILABLE PROJECTS

  1. Training interdisciplinary genre awareness through blended learning: An exploration into EAP students’ online annotation of genres across disciplines
  2. Negotiating knowledge in Garrwa conversation
  3. School to university: Journeys of Japanese language learners in Queensland
  4. Creation of web-based language technology learning and teaching resources
  5. Developing e-Dictionaries
  1. Language in social interaction: Exploring humour, identity and offence
  2. Investigations of validity and reliability of C-test and Elicited Imitation task in Japanese
  3. Quantitative and qualitative data management in language studies
  4. The critical investigation of textbooks in South Korea and China
  5. Building an electronic Kukatja language corpus

9. The critical investigation of textbooks in South Korea and China

Project duration:

10 weeks 
30 November to 18 December 2010
4 January to 19 February 2021 

Project profile: 

COVID-19 considerations:  The project can be completed under a remote working arrangement but with occasional face to face meetings by arrangement. 

Description:

This project aims to investigate the dominant ideologies and values that are integrated in school textbooks used in China and South Korea. Using CDA, this project critically analyses texts and images in South Korean and Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary school.  Textbooks are known to promote and legitimise government ruling ideologies. Through this project, I will look into how school textbooks portray the critical issues such as identities, environmental issues and government ruling ideologies, and whose interests they portray.

The students will have the opportunity to translate Chinese and Korean textbooks into English and Chinese, and Korean scholarly articles into English. They will learn how to analyse textbooks critically, and learn the dominant ruling ideologies and the underlying messages which are unsaid as well.

Number of hours per week: 

36 hours per week

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Students will develop critical analytic skills of texts and images, and will have an opportunity to translate Korean into English, and Chinese into English or Korean.

Suitable for:

This project is open to receive applications from students with high bi-lingual skills (Korean and English or Chinese and Korean/English), UQ enrolled students.

Number of participants required: 

2

Primary Supervisor: 

Dr Isaac Lee

Further info: 

Please contact Dr Isaac Lee via email