The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?
Drawing upon Bourdieu’s concept of capital, this article examines the enactment of the Programa Nacional de Bilingüismo (National Bilingual Program), a policy that aims to provide Colombian students equal opportunities to learn English. In this exploratory, sequential mixed-methods study, data were...
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| description | Drawing upon Bourdieu’s concept of capital, this article examines the enactment of the Programa Nacional de Bilingüismo (National Bilingual Program), a policy that aims to provide Colombian students equal opportunities to learn English. In this exploratory, sequential mixed-methods study, data were collected from teachers and students from three Grade 5 classrooms of public schools in Colombia. The findings revealed that the plan’s differentiated enactment generates unequal access to opportunities to build language capital and unequal levels of academic language achievement among the three schools. We argue that the enactment of the plan to equalize opportunities and achievement and therefore build the language capital of Colombian students is obstructed by existing funding structures. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-12b9113fce7449acb3eb3d0241fca3f02025-08-20T03:17:32ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902256-57602023-07-012529511010.15446/profile.v25n2.103003The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?Diego Cardona-Escobar0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9166-5128Melissa Barnes1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3090-2585Marc Pruyn2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5965-4303Institución Educativa AcadémicoLa Trobe UniversityMonash UniversityDrawing upon Bourdieu’s concept of capital, this article examines the enactment of the Programa Nacional de Bilingüismo (National Bilingual Program), a policy that aims to provide Colombian students equal opportunities to learn English. In this exploratory, sequential mixed-methods study, data were collected from teachers and students from three Grade 5 classrooms of public schools in Colombia. The findings revealed that the plan’s differentiated enactment generates unequal access to opportunities to build language capital and unequal levels of academic language achievement among the three schools. We argue that the enactment of the plan to equalize opportunities and achievement and therefore build the language capital of Colombian students is obstructed by existing funding structures.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/103003colombiaeducational equalityenglish as a foreign languagelanguage capitallanguage policypolicy enactment |
| spellingShingle | Diego Cardona-Escobar Melissa Barnes Marc Pruyn The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital? Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development colombia educational equality english as a foreign language language capital language policy policy enactment |
| title | The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital? |
| title_full | The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital? |
| title_fullStr | The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital? |
| title_short | The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital? |
| title_sort | enactment of the colombian national bilingual program equal access to language capital |
| topic | colombia educational equality english as a foreign language language capital language policy policy enactment |
| url | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/103003 |
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