LL SIGNS IN THE TEXTBOOKS OF LATVIAN: A CASE STUDY
My content analysis of textbooks has been carried out to understand how and how often illustration with LL signs have been used in 58 Latvian textbooks published between 1991 and 2018, and to learn what (not) to do in the author’s own teaching material. 40 books are for Latvian as a first language teaching (4 of them are for school pupils with special educational needs), although school pupils with Latvian as a second or third language also learn from them if they learn in schools with Latvian as the instruction language. 12 textbooks are for teaching Latvian in minority schools, while 6 books are for adolescents and adults who learn Latvian as a foreign language in Latvia or abroad. It is interesting that the most frequently published LL sign in the textbooks is an inscription on the Freedom Monument in Riga, the capital of Latvia – Tēvzemei un brīvībai ‘For Fatherland and Freedom’. It is included in six textbooks; four of them are for learning Latvian as a second lang...