Dr. Emrah Dolgunsöz: A Critical Perspective on Censorship In EFL Materials: Do We Really Need It

Dr. Emrah Dolgunsöz (Bayburt University, Turkey): A Critical Perspective on Censorship In EFL Materials: Do We Really Need It Recently, pig related visuals were excluded from English language learning materials by publishers and materials designers. These materials were supposed to be released for Muslim and Jewish regions such as Middle East and Gulf region (Harley, 2015; Flood, 2015) in which pig is a prohibited taboo figure. Thus, this study aimed to examine this recent marketing strategy in a crit