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The Role and Status of English in Spanish-Speaking Argentina and Its Education System

Author(s) -

Melina Porto

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244013514059

Subject(s) - nationalism , national identity , curriculum , context (archaeology) , identity (music) , colonialism , english language , pedagogy , sociology , national curriculum , english studies , political science , linguistics , mathematics education , psychology , history , politics , law , philosophy , physics , archaeology , acoustics

There is a lot of controversy nowadays in the field of EnglishLanguage Teaching (ELT) in the context of Teaching English to Speakers of OtherLanguages (TESOL) regarding the status and role of English in non-English speakingcountries, in particular in developing countries, as well as in English-speakingcountries with a history of colonialism. In these settings, the discourse of English asa form of imperialism requires a reconsideration of the role and status of English inthe national school curriculum in primary and secondary school contexts. It alsorequires the exploration of the connections with nationalism and national identity, forwithin this discourse of imperialism, English tends to be seen as detrimental to thenational identity, which education explicitly aims to form and develop through formalschooling

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