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Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous Students Learning English in Higher Education: What Are the Challenges?

Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2018

Aprendizaje de inglés de los estudiantes indígenas en la educación superior. Desafíos y expectati... more Aprendizaje de inglés de los estudiantes indígenas en la educación superior. Desafíos y expectativas L' apprentissage de l' anglais au niveau universitaire chez des étudiants des minorités indigènes. Des enjeux et des atteintes

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching English from a Critical Intercultural Perspective

Bloomsbury World Englishes Volume 3: Pedagogies

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous students learning English in higher education: Challenges and hopes

Íkala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2018

The increasing enforcement of English language policies in higher education represents a signific... more The increasing enforcement of English language policies in higher education represents a significant challenge for indigenous students entering Colombian universities. Researchers in this study worked on a sociolinguistic profile of over 300 indigenous students at Universidad de Antioquia and, from a critical decolonial perspective, aimed to understand the multiple views and challenges these students face in relation to their identities, languages, academic literacies, and the most recent institutional language policy that requires them to learn English to earn their university degrees. Data collection methods included several institutional databases, a survey, interviews, and conversation circles. Results from this study suggest that more equitable pedagogical principles coupled with a more sensitive and effective appropriation and implementation of this type of reform in higher education institutions are both necessary. These measures would prevent that learning English for indige...

Research paper thumbnail of Critical intercultural dialogue opening new paths to internationalization in HE: Repositioning local languages and cultures in foreign language policies

Educational approaches to Internationalisation through Intercultural Dialogue: Reflections on theory and practice., 2020

Neoliberal trends in the internationalization of higher education (HE) are leading to unprecedent... more Neoliberal trends in the internationalization of higher education (HE) are leading to unprecedented changes around the world. This chapter illustrates the case of Universidad de Antioquia as an example of how instrumental views of English language education policy in HE are being implemented, questioned and recreated in Colombia. Starting from a critical, decolonial perspective developed in Latin America and based on two research studies with ethnic minority students and language educators, the authors present a pedagogical proposal based on what they call critical intercultural dialogue (CICD). This chapter attempts to enrich the conversation around English teaching and language education policy in and beyond Europe; it argues for the need to integrate in these processes a discourse of social critique and a commitment to value the languages, individuals, communities, forms of knowledge, and identities of those who have been historically subordinated and excluded. In this way, the a...

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous Students Learning English in Higher Education: What Are the Challenges?

Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2018

Aprendizaje de inglés de los estudiantes indígenas en la educación superior. Desafíos y expectati... more Aprendizaje de inglés de los estudiantes indígenas en la educación superior. Desafíos y expectativas L' apprentissage de l' anglais au niveau universitaire chez des étudiants des minorités indigènes. Des enjeux et des atteintes

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching English from a Critical Intercultural Perspective

Bloomsbury World Englishes Volume 3: Pedagogies

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous students learning English in higher education: Challenges and hopes

Íkala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2018

The increasing enforcement of English language policies in higher education represents a signific... more The increasing enforcement of English language policies in higher education represents a significant challenge for indigenous students entering Colombian universities. Researchers in this study worked on a sociolinguistic profile of over 300 indigenous students at Universidad de Antioquia and, from a critical decolonial perspective, aimed to understand the multiple views and challenges these students face in relation to their identities, languages, academic literacies, and the most recent institutional language policy that requires them to learn English to earn their university degrees. Data collection methods included several institutional databases, a survey, interviews, and conversation circles. Results from this study suggest that more equitable pedagogical principles coupled with a more sensitive and effective appropriation and implementation of this type of reform in higher education institutions are both necessary. These measures would prevent that learning English for indige...

Research paper thumbnail of Critical intercultural dialogue opening new paths to internationalization in HE: Repositioning local languages and cultures in foreign language policies

Educational approaches to Internationalisation through Intercultural Dialogue: Reflections on theory and practice., 2020

Neoliberal trends in the internationalization of higher education (HE) are leading to unprecedent... more Neoliberal trends in the internationalization of higher education (HE) are leading to unprecedented changes around the world. This chapter illustrates the case of Universidad de Antioquia as an example of how instrumental views of English language education policy in HE are being implemented, questioned and recreated in Colombia. Starting from a critical, decolonial perspective developed in Latin America and based on two research studies with ethnic minority students and language educators, the authors present a pedagogical proposal based on what they call critical intercultural dialogue (CICD). This chapter attempts to enrich the conversation around English teaching and language education policy in and beyond Europe; it argues for the need to integrate in these processes a discourse of social critique and a commitment to value the languages, individuals, communities, forms of knowledge, and identities of those who have been historically subordinated and excluded. In this way, the a...

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