@article{article_105349, title={Linguistic Imperialism and EFL Textbooks: The Case of American English File}, journal={e-Uluslararası Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={3}, pages={36–49}, year={2012}, author={Baleghizadeh, Sasan and Saharkhiz, Arash}, keywords={American English File, linguistic imperialism, linguistic purism, textbooks}, abstract={The purpose of the present study was to examine the extent to which the outer and the expanding circle varieties of English have been taken into consideration in the widely-used English language teaching series American English File. To this end, the frequencies of the listening tracks including non-native varieties were compared with the tracks not including them through two measures of percentage and ratio. Our analyses demonstrated a trace of linguistic imperialism across all the levels of this series. The amount of exposure turned out to be seriously unsubstantial and ineffective indeed; in addition, the quality of this exposure was not very satisfactory due to the artificiality of the utterances spoken by the non-native speakers in the audio recordings. This suggests that English language teachers be more cautious about the hidden ideologies of the textbooks they expose their learners to. }, number={2}, publisher={Erdal TOPRAKCI}