English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language Education
This article attempts to problematize the way the English language is used in official documents. We will focus on the "Estándares Básicos de Competencias en Lenguas Extranjeras: Inglés" (Basic Standards of Competences in Foreign Languages: English), a handbook issued by the Colombian Mini...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2009-10-01
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| author | Carmen Helena Guerrero Nieto Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo |
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| description | This article attempts to problematize the way the English language is used in official documents. We will focus on the "Estándares Básicos de Competencias en Lenguas Extranjeras: Inglés" (Basic Standards of Competences in Foreign Languages: English), a handbook issued by the Colombian Ministry of Education. We deem it as a vehicle used to spread a hegemonic and ideological influence and to alienate teachers' beliefs and practices within English language education. To be concise, here we discuss only neutrality as one broad category that emerges in our close examination of how the English language is constructed within the handbook. In this paper, we construct our main points around three forms of neutrality: prescription, denotation, and uniformity. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-96f6ae08fd874a5fb07c8e11e86d9d2b2025-08-20T01:58:20ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902009-10-01112135150English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language EducationCarmen Helena Guerrero Nieto0Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo1Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasUniversidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasThis article attempts to problematize the way the English language is used in official documents. We will focus on the "Estándares Básicos de Competencias en Lenguas Extranjeras: Inglés" (Basic Standards of Competences in Foreign Languages: English), a handbook issued by the Colombian Ministry of Education. We deem it as a vehicle used to spread a hegemonic and ideological influence and to alienate teachers' beliefs and practices within English language education. To be concise, here we discuss only neutrality as one broad category that emerges in our close examination of how the English language is constructed within the handbook. In this paper, we construct our main points around three forms of neutrality: prescription, denotation, and uniformity.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11447English as a neutral languageEnglish language educationforeign language standardscritical discourse analysissymbolic powerlanguage policies |
| spellingShingle | Carmen Helena Guerrero Nieto Álvaro Hernán Quintero Polo English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language Education Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development English as a neutral language English language education foreign language standards critical discourse analysis symbolic power language policies |
| title | English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language Education |
| title_full | English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language Education |
| title_fullStr | English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language Education |
| title_short | English as a Neutral Language in the Colombian National Standards: A Constituent of Dominance in English Language Education |
| title_sort | english as a neutral language in the colombian national standards a constituent of dominance in english language education |
| topic | English as a neutral language English language education foreign language standards critical discourse analysis symbolic power language policies |
| url | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11447 |
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