Mahyuni’s scientific contributions

This study aimed to examine socio-economic representations in senior high school ELT textbooks used in Lombok as a typical region of Indonesia. Data for this study were purposively collected from five English textbooks used in senior high schools the island. Data were analyzed by employing Fairclough’s three-dimensional model (description, interpretation, and explanation) of critical discourse analysis. Findings of the study show that a significant portion of the texts still show inaccurate, inappropriate socio-economic representations of the students in all aspects under study. Results of analyses of the texts show that the texts use all types of processes and multimodal features; while contextual analyses show varieties in the time and place of the text production and the texts being referred to. Interpretation of the texts also shows producer’s and interpreter’s divergent, even conflicting perceptions of students’ representations. Finally, analysis of the power behind discourse that shaped and influenced presentation of the students’ representations in the textbooks includes institutional agents, namely, the government, the publisher, the recipient schools, and societal agents, namely, globalization of Western culture (and English as a global language), Indonesian culture and values, ICT (Internet), mass media, and the market.