A Comparative Analysis of Cultural Hegemony in Hidden Curriculum of International English Teaching Books

This study aims to conduct a comparative analysis on English language teaching textbooks in educational institutions mainly distributed by the American and European publishers. One of the concepts that can be analyzed is cultural hegemony in which a discourse seeks to exclude and remove other discourses. Accordingly, first the sub-components of cultural hegemony through the library search were extracted for the analysis phase. Next, the content of English language teaching textbooks was analyzed with regard to the extracted sub-components. The results indicated that some of the English learning textbooks commonly taught in the language institutes, such as American English File series, include elements of hegemony more than other textbooks. Although other textbooks included less elements of hegemony, they had a hegemonic content.