Linguistic Colonialism in the English Language Textbooks of Multinational Publishing Houses

Soto-Molina, Jairo Eduardo ^[2] ; Méndez, Pilar ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
  
  Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
  
  Colombia
2. [2] Universidad del Atlántico
Localización: HOW, ISSN 0120-5927, Vol. 27, Nº. 1, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: January/June), págs. 11-28
Idioma: inglés
Títulos paralelos:
- Colonialismo lingüístico en los libros de texto de inglés de las editoriales multinacionales
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Resumen
- The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the concepts of linguistic colonialism and cultural alienation in University textbooks for teaching English as opposed to the theories about culture in the decolonial turn. Dichotomous categories were established based on the analysis of the cultural component of the textbooks for the teaching of English. The corpus consisted of six textbooks produced by multinational publishers and used in Colombia during the years 2006-2018. Documentary analysis procedures were used to discuss emergent themed contents in relation to cultural components from a critical perspective that unveiled imperialism practices. Results showed that the textbook contents dealt with high levels of alienation burden, superficial cultural components and instrumentation to the submissive person who favors the dominant culture of English and does not offer possibilities to embrace interculturality in ELF teaching contexts.