Lenguas modernas; literatura; creación; didáctica

Journal Of Modern Languages ISSN Impreso: 1659-1933 ISSN electrónico: 2215-5643

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Diversifying proficiency models in EFL programs
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Diversifying pro ciency models in EFL programs

Keywords

native speakerism
proficiency models
nonnative English speaker proficiency
diversity and advocacy
hablantes nativos
modelos de pro ciencia lingüística
hablantes no nativos
hablantes de variaciones del inglés
defensa de la diversidad
native speakerism
proficiency models
nonnative English speaker proficiency
diversity and advocacy
hablantes nativos
modelos de proficiencia lingüística
hablantes no nativos
hablantes de variaciones del inglés
defensa de la diversidad

How to Cite

Fallas Escobar, C. (2018). Diversifying proficiency models in EFL programs. Journal Of Modern Languages, (27). https://doi.org/10.15517/rlm.v0i27.32146

Abstract

In this study I analyze insights provided by students from the English Department in a Costa Rican University, as to why the over-reliance on videos/audios featuring only native speakers of mainstream US English can be counterproductive, as it constructs an unspoken expectation for native-like proficiency. Subsequently, I use their ideas to list a series of pedagogical practices that, instead of making EFL students feel de cient speakers of English and apologetic about their accent (May, 2014), provide them with the validation they deserve for their expanding linguistic repertoire as emergent bilinguals (García, 2009). All in all, herein I continue to advocate for the abandonment of the native speakerism trend (Ho- lliday, 2006) that still prevails in EFL programs and call for the diversication of the English speaker/users models students are exposed to, in order to rid these programs of potential practices of discrimination and marginalization against speakers/users’ of diverse varieties of English (including international English/World Englishes).

 
https://doi.org/10.15517/rlm.v0i27.32146
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