The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?

Diego Cardona-Escobar; Melissa Barnes; Marc Pruyn

doi:10.15446/profile.v25n2.103003

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The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?

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The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?

Diego Cardona-Escobar, Melissa Barnes and Marc Pruyn

Profile, Vol.25(2), pp.95-110

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v25n2.103003

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Abstract

Colombia

educational equality

english as a foreign language

language capital

language policy

policy enactment

Drawing upon Bourdieu's concept of capital, this article examines the enactment of the Programa Nacional de Bilinguismo (National Bilingual Program), a policy that aims to provide Colombian students equal opportunities to learn English. In this exploratory, sequential mixed-methods study, data were collected from teachers and students from three Grade 5 classrooms of public schools in Colombia. The findings revealed that the plan's differentiated enactment generates unequal access to opportunities to build language capital and unequal levels of academic language achievement among the three schools. We argue that the enactment of the plan to equalize opportunities and achievement and therefore build the language capital of Colombian students is obstructed by existing funding structures.

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Title: The Enactment of the Colombian National Bilingual Program: Equal Access to Language Capital?
Authors: Diego Cardona-Escobar (Corresponding Author) - Institución Educativa Académico (Colombia)
Melissa Barnes - La Trobe University
Marc Pruyn - Monash University
Publication details: Profile, Vol.25(2), pp.95-110
Publisher: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
Date published: 2023
DOI: 10.15446/profile.v25n2.103003
ISSN: 1657-0790
Copyright note: Copyright (c) 2023 Diego Cardona-Escobar, Melissa Barnes, Marc Pruyn. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Inter-national License. Consultation is possible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Organisation Unit: School of Education and Tertiary Access
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991171845802621
Output Type: Journal article

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