Challenging the Monolingual Bias in EFL Programs: Towards a Bilingual Approach to L2 Learning

 

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Autor: Fallas Escobar, Christian
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2016
Descripción:In this paper, I question the practice of reducing L2 learning (emerging bilingualism) to the acquisition of monolingual-like competence in the target language and advocate for L2 users/learners’ language capacities to be understood from a holistic bilingual approach. Here, I discuss the implications of allowing this monolingual bias to operate unchallenged as I examine the experiences/opinions of language learners and instructors from the English Language Department at a public university in Costa Rica, regarding what it means to learn a foreign language and to become a bilingual speaker. Thereafter, I consider the challenge of ridding language education programs of this pervasive monolingual bias so that ways are found to allow L2 users/learners to stop characterizing themselves as deficient speakers of their additional language.  
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/24627
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/24627
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:bilingualism
L2/L1 in EFL Classrooms
monolingual bias
bilingual approach to L2 learning
bilingüismo
L2/L1 en la clase de Inglés como lengua extranjera
“monolingual bias”
enfoque holístico en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de una segunda y lengua extranjera