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The Representation of Iran in Englishcentral Educational Website: Unfolding the Hidden Curriculum
Khadijeh Karimi Alavijeh، S. Susan Marandi
Alzahra University, Tehran
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Despite their widespread popularity and rapid growth, the Internet-mediated English educational materials for learners of English as a foreign/second language (FL/SL) have rarely been analyzed in terms of their potential hidden curriculum. Accordingly, the present study aims to address this need through conducting a CDA investigation into some lessons which are randomly selected from an English educational website called “Englishcentral.” Adapting, expanding, and adopting some elements of Van Leeuwen’s (2008) Social Actor Network, the researchers attempt to describe and explain the representation of “Iran” in Englishcentral. Investigating and thematizing the research data revealed that the keyword “Iran” was used in this website to refer to three groups of social actors, namely the Iranian government and officials, Iranian people, and Iranian people and/or government/officials. The way these social actors are associated and dissociated, activated and passivated, personalized and impersonalized creates remarkable findings which give support to the presence of particular hidden agenda in this program.  In all, the results of this study reveal that the Iranian social actors are portrayed unfavorably in Englishcentral, which is an alleged English educational program.
واژه‌های کلیدی: Hidden Curriculum، Critical Discourse Analysis، Van Leeuwen’s Social Actor Network، Iran، Englishcentral، English Language Teaching (ELT)
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نوع مطالعه: پژوهشي |
پذیرش: 1396/7/21 | انتشار: 1396/7/21


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