Unanswered Questions in Colombia’s Foreign Language Education Policy
Following the trend of much of the Western, non-English speaking world, Colombia has tirelessly strived for spreading English education in an effort to augment economic benefits. This paper aims at providing a critical account of foreign language education policy in Colombia, with special attention...
- Autores:
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Bonilla Carvajal, Camilo Andrés
Tejada-Sanchez, Isabel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/66935
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/66935
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/67963/
- Palabra clave:
- 37 Educación / Education
8 Literatura y retórica / Literature
Bilingual education in Colombia
Common European Framework of Reference
language policy
linguistic colonialism
colonialismo lingüístico
educación bilingüe en Colombia
Marco Común Europeo de Referencia
política lingüística
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Following the trend of much of the Western, non-English speaking world, Colombia has tirelessly strived for spreading English education in an effort to augment economic benefits. This paper aims at providing a critical account of foreign language education policy in Colombia, with special attention to English. It outlines the impact of its multiple transitions over the past decades through a historical description that overviews all previous policies, the critical reception by scholars, and present-day initiatives. We then move on to analysing the choice of English as a synonym for bilingualism and conclude with emerging questions that are to be considered for future debates and reassessments of Colombia’s English-Spanish bilingual education policy. |
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