(De)colonial resonance in pre-service English teachers’ conceptions of language
In this article, I aim to to discuss how pre-service English teachers’ conceptions of language, from a public university in Bahia, get closer to or farther from the logic of modernity/coloniality. This qualitative interpretative study was carried out while the “Introduction to Applied Ling...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB) |
| Repositorio: | Babel (Alagoinhas) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.uneb.br:article/13586 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uneb.br/babel/article/view/13586 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | (De)coloniality Locus of enunciation (English) language teachers (De)colonialidade Locus de enunciação Professoras/es de língua(s) (inglesa) |
| Sumario: | In this article, I aim to to discuss how pre-service English teachers’ conceptions of language, from a public university in Bahia, get closer to or farther from the logic of modernity/coloniality. This qualitative interpretative study was carried out while the “Introduction to Applied Linguistics” subject was delivered in 2019. Based upon decolonial studies (GROSFOGUEL, 2010; BAPTISTA, 2021a, 2021b; MIGNOLO, 2017; SANTOS, 2019), I problematize the universality imposed by the Western reasoning, attempting to clarify the concepts embedded in the modernity/coloniality pair as well as the role of the locus of enunciation. Additionally, I deal with the origin of the modern concept of language, its effects on language education, and I pinpoint three resistance strategies to interrupt coloniality as proposed by Souza and Duboc (2021). At the end of the study, among some shifts, there is the understanding of the close relationship between language, identity and local social practices, since some participants try to mark their identities, corporalities and subjectivities through language, establishing a certain locus of enunciation. |
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