Linguistic justice in English-medium instruction contexts: a theoretical argument

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Josep Soler
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This article looks at English-medium instruction (EMI) contexts in higher education from a linguistic justice perspective and offers a theoretical argument to discuss the potential for EMI to be defended as a positive and valuable phenomenon, beyond economic and competitive arguments. In the final keynote panel at the 2022 ICLHE conference, Philippe Van Parijs pondered how EMI teachers might be seen: either as killers, traitors, sellers, saviours, upgraders, or liberators. After providing characterisations for each of these labels, Van Parijs suggested that EMI teachers should be better conceived of as civilisers, not in a missionary sense of civilising the barbarian, but in the Aristotelian meaning of civic virtue, of citizens being part of public life, actively involved in discussion of public affairs. This seems to imply a specific view of English, one that almost naturally equates the language to democratic progress and consensus. In the article, I challenge this assumption and suggest that for English to be a democratising agent and EMI truly a gate-opener to higher education, emphasis needs to be placed on listening subject positions and regimes of uptake as key aspects of democratic deliberation and key elements to overcome prejudiced views of accents and voices.
英语教学环境中的语言公正:理论论证
本文从语言正义的角度审视了高等教育中的英语教学(EMI)环境,并提出了一个理论论点,讨论了在经济和竞争论点之外,EMI作为一种积极和有价值的现象被捍卫的可能性。在2022年ICLHE会议的最后一个主题小组讨论中,菲利普-范-帕里斯(Philippe Van Parijs)思考了如何看待EMI教师:是将其视为杀手、叛徒、卖家、救世主、升级者,还是解放者。Van Parijs 对这些标签一一进行了描述,然后建议最好将 EMI 教师视为文明人,不是传教士意义上的文明野蛮人,而是亚里士多德意义上的公民美德,即公民是公共生活的一部分,积极参与公共事务的讨论。这似乎意味着一种特定的英语观,一种几乎自然地将英语等同于民主进步和共识的英语观。在这篇文章中,我对这一假设提出了质疑,并建议要使英语成为民主化的媒介,使 EMI 真正成为高等教育的敲门砖,就需要强调倾听主体的立场和吸收制度,将其作为民主讨论的关键方面,以及克服对口音和声音的偏见的关键因素。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of English as a Lingua Franca (JELF) is the first journal to be devoted to the rapidly-growing phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca. The articles and other features explore this global phenomenon from a wide number of perspectives, including linguistic, sociolinguistic, socio-psychological, and political, in a diverse range of settings where English is the common language of choice.
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