Una perspectiva decolonial de la dicotomía nativa y no nativa en textos de inglés

Abstract

This qualitative research study aims to analyze the contents included in two English textbooks used by two Colombian universities in regards to the native and non-native speaker and the way they are portrayed in discursive terms, in the listening exercises proposed by the textbooks. Besides, it explains the tensions implicit in the native and non-native dichotomy, and the implications that the supremacy given to the use of the native speaker myth could bring when it is immerse in ELT materials. Consequently, the findings of this study are taken from a method of Critical Discourse Analysis in which the English textbooks and other kinds of texts such as theoretical references and the media dialogued to show the ideological implications of this phenomenon and its influence on the way in which native and non-native speakers shape their attitudes towards the language and its learning process.