Abstract This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English admission requirements. Universities are today caught between order of nation state and that corporate globalization as they seek to attract both national international students. tension produces conflicting processes (converse) racialization linguistic (un)marking within which universities construct proficie...

This article analyzes the experiences of two preservice English language teachers within their bachelor’s degree and pedagogical practicum through a collaborative autoethnography. The authors discuss empowerment as contributing agent to field teaching address issues such methodologies, mentor teachers, native speakerism, colonial ideologies, decolonization processes. Findings suggest that shoul...

Abstract This paper addresses several problematic scientific practices in psycholinguistic research. We discuss challenges that arise when working with minority languages, such as the notion of monolingual/monocultural normality and its historical origins, stereotype native-speakerism, quest for testing people who fit specific profiles, implications policy urges scholars to match bilingual grou...

Emerging from the growing body of work on English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education are challenges to policy implementation, particularly when it is implemented top-down without a careful needs analysis or fails address problems associated with ‘English-only’ implementation and so-called ‘native speaker’ norms. Our study responds this need by exploring role EMI classrooms. We draw da...

As English continues to spread as an international lingua franca, there is a growing diversity in its use around the world. result, are calls for embracing teaching, learning and assessment of language. At same time, criticism against widely taken language tests such Test Foreign Language (TOEFL) The International Testing System (IELTS) being guided by pervasive ideology monolingual native spea...

Arising in Europe the early 1990s, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has become a popular educational approach. CLIL involves dual focus on with an additional used as medium of instruction. Although received much attention spread widely around world, there is limited discussion that critically examines relation to its core construct integration between learning. In particular, phr...