#4044. An examination of EFL textbooks in Lithuania

November 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This paper provides a Critical Discourse Analysis and a Cultural Discourse Studies analysis of a series of English as a foreign language textbooks produced and used in Lithuanian schools during the Soviet era and into the post-Soviet era. The analysis shows that these books use the English language not to pay homage to linguistic imperialism and concomitantly promote anglophone countries (the Inner Circle), but rather to demote these countries and advance a communist ideology. This paper concludes that the English language per se is not an agent capable of (re)producing inequalities; rather, it is an instrument for other agents–in this case the creators of English language textbooks–to use to mediate any ideology, not just those for whom English is a first language.
Keywords:
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Cultural Discourse Studies (CDS); English language teaching (ELT) materials

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