Globalization and Bilingualization in Colombia
The present work is the result of a research work that investigates, from a glottopolitical perspective, the role of language in the context of public policies in the Colombian education system. Bilingualization is understood as the process of establishing an educational model for bilingualism whose...
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UPTC Editorial
2023
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| Online Access: | https://librosaccesoabierto.uptc.edu.co/index.php/editorial-uptc/catalog/book/383 |
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| Summary: | The present work is the result of a research work that investigates, from a glottopolitical perspective, the role of language in the context of public policies in the Colombian education system. Bilingualization is understood as the process of establishing an educational model for bilingualism whose circulating discourse within institutions has established positive social representations associated with the desire of the country to be accepted by the globalized community. The concepts of discourse and its determining and determined function by means of the communicative interactions regarding the formation, transformation, maintenance and suppression of some social representations that provide apparent legitimacy to the process of participation in the internalization of markets, assigns theoretical support to the study. Collaterally, the official discursive exercise on the implementation of an educational bilingualism also begins to generate a process of reconfiguration of new identities that undermine regional and national identities. The critical analysis of discourse (Fairclough, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2006; Van Dijk, 2004, 2009; Wodak, 2003) made it possible to discern the role of official discourse in the search of social acceptance of bilingual policies. The Colombian Ministry of National Education has been responsible for circulating a discourse, imbued with institutionalized power that exerts coercion on a passive social actor, which promotes ignorance of a traditional and natural multilingual country, in pursuit of an artificial bilingualism. The reproduction of the discourse on bilingual education in Colombia, reveals the study, a socio-political bias that leans towards the transcendental determinations that favor the processes of mercantilist internationalization, and minimizes procedures for safeguarding and strengthening regional culture. The representation of institutionality, the need to be bilingual and the supranational identity together with the mediation of the curriculum in the context of globalization, suggest a change of identity archetype. |
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