The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?

Autor/inn/en	Cardona-Escobar, Diego; Barnes, Melissa; Pruyn, Marc
Titel	The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?
Quelle	In: PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 25 (2023) 2, S.95-110 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cardona-Escobar, Diego) ORCID (Barnes, Melissa) ORCID (Pruyn, Marc)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1657-0790
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Bilingual Education Programs; Grade 5; Elementary School Students; Access to Education; Equal Education; Educational Finance; Educational Policy; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Public Schools; Barriers; Academic Achievement; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Institutional Characteristics; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsfonds; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulleistung; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Kolumbien
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01