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