(2023-05-20) Di Pietro, Paula Anabel; Mucci, María Rosa
Heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation widely accepted in Western society while all other sexualities are generally excluded. A heteronormative community is made up of heterosexual marriage, sexual orientation with reproductive purposes and the perpetuation of heteronormative roles and stereotypes. These ideas seem to be replicated and reinforced not only in the media or advertisements, but also in the educational system, more specifically in EFL textbooks. The present work proposes to analyse the changes in heteronormativity in the units devoted to the topic of “Family” in the series (New) English File of intermediate level in its four editions (1996, 2003, 2013 and 2018). For such purpose, a qualitative research is carried out to examine the pictures and images in the light of the Barthesian myth and the texts by applying the metadiscourse theory by Hyland. Results have shown that these texts and pictures still contribute to the reproduction of the heteronormative model.
