EFL text (Class five) of Bangladeshi Government Primary Education and Critical Consciousness through Culture: A Nexus Analysis

English for Today (Class 5), an EFL textbook in Bangladeshi Bengali medium primary education, has many elements of local and global culture, called cultural capital from a pedagogical point of view. This cultural capital builds a critical consciousness about culture among learners, which enables them to speak against any type of injustice and exploitation. In this sense, critical consciousness seems to be a postcolonial perspective. Given this information, the study uses ‘Nexus Analysis’ as the method to analyze how English for Today (Class 5) produces critical consciousness through cultural capital in learners who will ultimately be conscious of their rights. The nexus analysis illustrates how language and other semiotic techniques mediate action. A table containing an observation checklist of the discourses about different cultural elements from the textbook that mediate action is given in the article. The result shows that many elements of culture in the reading texts as well as in exercises, especially in dialogic forms of the book can give birth to critical consciousness. To increase the ratio of this critical consciousness, the article recommends a pedagogical method where teachers should engage learners of varied socio-cultural backgrounds in dialogical practices and adopt the right strategy rejecting the one-size-fits-all pedagogy.