The purpose of this question 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 texts for the teaching of English. The corpus consisted of six textbooks produced by foreign 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 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.
What specific question are you asking scholars to respond to?
This appears to be a report on a research project. The results you present seem to be one-sided.
Before I could even comment, I would need to know your definition of terms, such as "alienation burden" and "instrumentation to the submissive person."
Is it a research question? If so, you have reached to the answers where you explained the purpose. I think you'd better make it so clear for the respondents if you want to deeply delve into it.
It is evidenced basically in the excess of English culture, of historical and geographical points that are related only to the North American culture. Date of parties that are experienced more intensely in that country such as Day of Thanksgiving, “Halloween”, for example. In Brazil, the imposition of American culture on Brazilian culture is reflected in textbook editions and is commonly accepted by people for the sake of moral alienation and the idea that everything that comes from the USA is better than what it's national. Linguistic colonialism extends to informal conversations that adopt various English expressions unnecessarily, since there is already a corresponding word in the vernacular.
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