Disciplinary Power Lying Behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International Scholarships
This article reports a study about how the discourse of standard English exercises disciplinary power in five international scholarships programs. This research interest arises from problematizing the discourse of standard English present in the requisite of proficiency certification through so-call...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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| description | This article reports a study about how the discourse of standard English exercises disciplinary power in five international scholarships programs. This research interest arises from problematizing the discourse of standard English present in the requisite of proficiency certification through so-called valid tests. Adapting Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis model, we analyzed a corpus of five scholarship calls for applications open from 2011 to 2014. Findings reveal that the discourse of standard English entangles with the discourses of globalization, education quality, and competitiveness and qualifications to serve as the path to the construction of the subjects’ scholarship applicants. In this entanglement, school is set as a breeding ground whose disciplinary techniques (e.g., test training) objectivize people to satisfy multinational corporations’ hiring processes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-34b3cdf79ef240ceb9cdc58d792ce79e2025-08-20T02:01:45ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902022-01-0124117519110.15446/profile.v24n1.91112Disciplinary Power Lying Behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International ScholarshipsAlber Josué Forero-Mondragón0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1232-0832Álvaro Hernán Quintero-Polo1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0315-8802Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasThis article reports a study about how the discourse of standard English exercises disciplinary power in five international scholarships programs. This research interest arises from problematizing the discourse of standard English present in the requisite of proficiency certification through so-called valid tests. Adapting Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis model, we analyzed a corpus of five scholarship calls for applications open from 2011 to 2014. Findings reveal that the discourse of standard English entangles with the discourses of globalization, education quality, and competitiveness and qualifications to serve as the path to the construction of the subjects’ scholarship applicants. In this entanglement, school is set as a breeding ground whose disciplinary techniques (e.g., test training) objectivize people to satisfy multinational corporations’ hiring processes.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/91112discourse of standard englishenglish language teachinginternational scholarshipspowerstandardized testing |
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| title | Disciplinary Power Lying Behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International Scholarships |
| title_full | Disciplinary Power Lying Behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International Scholarships |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Disciplinary Power Lying Behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International Scholarships |
| title_short | Disciplinary Power Lying Behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International Scholarships |
| title_sort | disciplinary power lying behind the requisite of english language mastery in international scholarships |
| topic | discourse of standard english english language teaching international scholarships power standardized testing |
| url | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/91112 |
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