In recent decades, there has been a growing interest in the integration of moral values into language textbooks. This study aims to examine the inclusion of moral values in primary school language textbooks used in a multicultural country, specifically Indonesia. We conducted a critical discourse analysis adopting Martin and White’s (2005) language appraisal theory, Kress and van Leuween’s (2006) visual grammar theory, and Smetana’s (2006) social domain theory (social constructivism) to elucidate the verbal and visual representations of moral values in Indonesian primary school English language (EL) textbooks. The findings show that helping others, being friendly and polite, and tolerance are the most dominant moral values discursively depicted in three primary school EL textbooks in the present study. This suggests that those three values are socioculturally ingrained in Indonesian culture.

近几十年来，人们越来越关注将道德价值观融入语言教科书。本研究旨在检查在多元文化国家（特别是印度尼西亚）使用的小学语言课本中包含道德价值观的情况。我们采用 Martin 和 White (2005) 的语言评价理论、Kress 和 van Leuween (2006) 的视觉语法理论以及 Smetana (2006) 的社会领域理论（社会建构主义）进行了批判性话语分析，以阐明道德价值观的语言和视觉表现在印度尼西亚小学英语 (EL) 教科书中。研究结果表明，在本研究的三本小学英语教科书中，帮助他人、友好礼貌和宽容是最主要的道德价值观。