fa The Representation of Iran in Englishcentral Educational Website: Unfolding the Hidden Curriculum پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;">Despite their widespread popularity and rapid growth, the Internet-mediated English educational materials for learners of English as a foreign/second language (FL/SL) have rarely been analyzed in terms of their potential hidden curriculum. Accordingly, the present study aims to address this need through conducting a CDA investigation into some lessons which are randomly selected from an English educational website called &ldquo;Englishcentral.&rdquo; Adapting, expanding, and adopting some elements of Van Leeuwen&rsquo;s (2008) Social Actor Network, the researchers attempt to describe and explain the representation of &ldquo;Iran&rdquo; in Englishcentral. Investigating and thematizing the research data revealed that the keyword &ldquo;Iran&rdquo; was used in this website to refer to three groups of social actors, namely the Iranian government and officials, Iranian people, and Iranian people and/or government/officials. The way these social actors are <em>associated</em> and <em>dissociated</em>, <em>activated</em> and <em>passivated</em>, <em>personalized</em> and <em>impersonalized</em> creates remarkable findings which give support to the presence of particular hidden agenda in this program.&nbsp; In all, the results of this study reveal that the Iranian social actors are portrayed unfavorably in Englishcentral, which is an alleged English educational program.</div> Hidden Curriculum , Critical Discourse Analysis , Van Leeuwen’s Social Actor Network , Iran , Englishcentral , English Language Teaching (ELT) , idden Curriculum , Critical Discourse Analysis , Van Leeuwen’s Social Actor Network , Iran , Englishcentral , English Language Teaching (ELT) 119 146 http://ijal.khu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-3-77&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Khadijeh Karimi Alavijeh 1003194753284600891 1003194753284600891 Yes Alzahra University, Tehran S. Susan Marandi 1003194753284600892 1003194753284600892 No Alzahra University, Tehran