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Issues of ideology in English language education worldwide: An overview ...
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The relatively limited consideration of ideology in mainstream theory and research of teaching the English language to speakers of other languages has arguably prevented the problematization of many taken-for-granted perceptions and practices of the field. In this article, I attempt to bring part of this marginalized body of scholarship on issues of ideology in the area of English language teaching (ELT) to highlight its potential insights for the field. The article sets out from a view of ideology as the most fundamental beliefs in any social practice , which may provide a less-formidable conception of the term and lessen the divergence among the minority of ELT researchers and professionals that do concern themselves with ideology. Then, after a brief sketch of the notion of ideology of language (education), I present an overview of aspects of this marginal but vibrant stream of thought on issues of ideology in ELT worldwide. Overall, the discussion is aimed to act as a call for the further understanding ...
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Sociopolitics of Language Education; Language education; Qualitative research; Critical discourse studies; Critical sociolinguistics; ELT Ideologies
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/2649745
https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2649745
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