Abstract
This chapter lays the groundwork for the study of Canadian and Quebec cultural content in beginning-level French textbooks used in the USA from 1960 to 2010. It explains why Quebec’s language politics is seen as interesting content for language textbooks and describes Quebec’s national cultural narrative, including events such as the French settlement of Canada, the Quiet Revolution, the Charter of the French Language, and the sovereignty referenda of 1980 and 1995. The methodology for investigating Quebec’s cultural narrative in French textbooks is explained with descriptions of the population of interest and sampling plan, the types of content to be investigated, as well as the procedures for analysis. Results summarize the quantity of images and textual presentation of Canada and Quebec in the textbooks for each of the decades finding increases in Canadian and Quebec content in beginning-level textbooks in the USA over the fifty-year period.
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