English Language of My Own: Misconceptions about the Good English Language Speaker
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v45i2.597Keywords:
Language Policy, bilingual education, English language.Abstract
The objective of this paper is to problematize the English teaching and learning tradition that understands any deviation from “native speakers’” standards as a sign of deficiency. For this reason, the theory on the relationship between language and culture and on bilinguals’ discursive practices is reviewed. After analyzing excerpts taken from observations of English classes for Brazilian teenagers both in private lessons and in a bilingual school, it is concluded that there are two misleading representations of the process of teaching and learning English: (i) mixing languages is a sign of incompetence, and (ii) local marks in the use of English indicates flaws in the process of teaching and learning this language.
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