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Title Decoding Religious Contents: A Comparative Study of English Textbooks at Primary Level in Pakistan

Author(s) Nyla Akram

Abstract Textbooks play an essential role in shaping students' minds, particularly during their formative years in primary education. Textbooks' discourses are significant means of disseminating desired ideology to the target readers and making them behave in a particular manner. Discursive strategies employed in this regard play a vital role in making certain ideologies common sense. The present study critically analyses the religious contents of primary English textbooks to lay bare implicit and explicit ideologies at work through the Multimodal Discourse Analysis technique. For this purpose, the data has been collected from the textbooks published in 2022. Moreover, the study employs Multimodality by Kress and Van Leeuwen (2006) and Focus Group Discussion by Krueger (2002) as a tool of analysis. Content Analysis has also been done to support the qualitative analysis quantitatively. The relevant data from the mentioned textbooks have been selected and analyzed. The present research highlights the significance of word-picture conjunction in the propagation of desired religious ideologies. The overall impression that is drawn from the linguistic and semiotic analyses of selected textbooks is that all textbooks contain religious contents. The percentage of religious contents in textbooks of Punjab, Balochistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is 28% whereas it is 40% in Sindh textbooks. The study contends that textbooks at the primary level play a significant role in shaping the mindset of young learners in the desired manner through their religious contents.

Type Thesis/Dissertation

Faculty Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Department English (Multan Campus)

Language English

Publication Date 2025-08-20

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