2018
DOI: 10.17533/udea.ikala.v23n02a03
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Indigenous Students Learning English in Higher Education: What Are the Challenges?

Abstract: Aprendizaje de inglés de los estudiantes indígenas en la educación superior. Desafíos y expectativas L' apprentissage de l' anglais au niveau universitaire chez des étudiants des minorités indigènes. Des enjeux et des atteintes AbstractThe increasing enforcement of English language policies in higher education represents a significant challenge for indigenous students entering Colombian universities. Researchers in this study worked on a sociolinguistic profile of over 300 indigenous students at Universidad de… Show more

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“…Colombia is linguistically and culturally diverse, while experiencing ongoing patterns of linguistic and cultural genocide. While Spanish has been the official language of Colombia since colonization in 1492, there are 65 Indigenous languages, in addition to varieties of Creole, Romani, and sign languages (Usma Wilches et al, 2018). In 1991, Colombia passed a new national constitution, which recognized the country as multiethnic and plurilingual.…”
Section: Decolonialitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Colombia is linguistically and culturally diverse, while experiencing ongoing patterns of linguistic and cultural genocide. While Spanish has been the official language of Colombia since colonization in 1492, there are 65 Indigenous languages, in addition to varieties of Creole, Romani, and sign languages (Usma Wilches et al, 2018). In 1991, Colombia passed a new national constitution, which recognized the country as multiethnic and plurilingual.…”
Section: Decolonialitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Whereas decolonization refers to the historical process in which former colonies became independent nation-states, decoloniality is “a communal project of critique toward the European Modernity born in Latin America that exposes the colonial effects on the Latin American cultures” (Castañeda-Londoño, 2019, p. 225). Decolonial scholars interrogate the “dominant European and North American lines of thought that have set agendas, discourses and practices for millions of people and communities [by] imposing their world views, knowledge and ways of doing, feeling and being in the world as the only valid choices” (Usma Wilches et al, 2018, p. 233). Within this dynamic, European and North American cultures, languages, and scholars are seen as legitimate and superior.…”
Section: Decolonialitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most teacher education programs in Colombia continue to advocate for communicative language teaching approaches that favour English-only policies, given that this is what is expected by government and institutional authorities. This negatively affects marginalized communities in the country (Usma, 2009a(Usma, , 2009bUsma, Ortiz, & Gutierrez, 2018). This points to a need for change in how teachers envision a classroom where more socially-just oriented pedagogies are more inclusive of cultural and linguistic practices (Sierra-Piedrahita, 2016).…”
Section: Teacher Education Programsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En cuanto a comunidades afrodescendientes, algunas investigaciones han mostrado que, en materiales de enseñanza de lenguas, estas son "mal-visibilizadas" ya que casi nunca se tienen en cuenta y, cuando aparecen, se refuerzan muchos estereotipos o ideas exotistas (Cuba-Vega, 2014;Lefevere y Okome, 2015;Soler, 2006). De otra parte, en se ha analizado cómo, al estar en contacto con grupos lingüísticos y culturales mayoritarios, los inmigrantes han sido objeto de políticas restrictivas, estratificaciones y diferentes tipos de conflictos identitarios (Arrequín y Ruiz-Escalante, 2014;Redondo-Quesada, 2018;Usma, Medina y Ortiz;.…”
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