Disciplinary Power Lying behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International Scholarships

Autor/inn/en	Forero-Mondragón, Alber Josué; Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán
Titel	Disciplinary Power Lying behind the Requisite of English Language Mastery in International Scholarships
Quelle	In: PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 24 (2022) 1, S.175-191 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Forero-Mondragón, Alber Josué) ORCID (Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1657-0790
Schlagwörter	Mastery Learning; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Language Proficiency; Discourse Analysis; Competition; Global Approach; Educational Quality; Standard Spoken Usage; Computational Linguistics; Scholarships; Standardized Tests; Language Tests; Certification; Study Abroad; Grants; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Diskursanalyse; Wettkampf; Globales Denken; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Gesprochene Sprache; Umgangssprache; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Scholarship; Stipendium; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Language test; Sprachtest; Abschlusszeugnis; Zertifizierung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Kolumbien
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11