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Angelo, Ria – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
This paper deals with the relationship between neoliberalism and communicative language teaching in language-in-education policy. Neoliberalism, or the deregulation of state based on meritocracy, or equal competition, gives rise to paradoxical discourses. On the one hand, sociolinguistic superdiversity shows us the unprecedented mixing and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Language of Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning
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Piccardo, Enrica – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
Contemporary globalized society is characterized by mobility and change, two phenomena that have a direct impact on the broad linguistic landscape. Language proficiency is no longer seen as a monolithic phenomenon that occurs independently of the linguistic repertoires and trajectories of learners and teachers, but rather shaped by uneven and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency