The Role of Social Class in English Language Education

Autor:	Stephanie Vandrick
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Social order Social philosophy Social change Pedagogy Social position Life chances Sociology Social class Social stratification Language and Linguistics Education Social theory
Zdroj:	Journal of Language, Identity & Education. 13:85-91
ISSN:	1532-7701 1534-8458
DOI:	10.1080/15348458.2014.901819
Popis:	English language educators are often advocates for social justice and often focus on learners’ identities, such as their race, gender, and ethnicity; however, they tend not to employ a social class lens in analyzing students, teachers, classrooms, and institutions. Yet social class plays a significant, if unacknowledged, role in the field. Scholars do not often examine the whole range of social class (high to low) or ways in which English language teaching (ELT) reproduces and reinforces privilege, or lack thereof. This article briefly looks at existing literature and relevant theory on social class; explores ways in which power and privilege play out in English-language education; queries the roles of coloniality and neoliberalism in exacerbating social stratification; notes intersections of social class with other identities; and recommends increased attention to social class in English language education research, teacher education, and language classrooms.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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