A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE IDEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING IN MOROCCO

This research is motivated by an insistent curiosity to accurately understand the assumption that English Language Teaching is not something of a closed box concerned only with technical matters; rather the operation is over loaded with ideologies among which ‘English as a Global Language'. To investigate this very controversial assertion, the study focuses exclusively on a corpus of sixteen popular foreign and national English Language Centers (ELC) operating in Morocco through a critical discourse analysis of slogans, texts and pictorial prompts in those ELCs' websites to explore how the unquestionable assumption of ‘English as a Global Language' is being displayed, promoted and reinforced in those websites' pages.