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Title: | Policy mechanisms of the standard language ideology in England’s education system |
Authors: | Cushing, I |
Keywords: | language ideology;critical language policy;standardised English;schools;England |
Issue Date: | 24-Feb-2020 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Cushing, I. (2021) 'Policy mechanisms of the standard language ideology in England’s education system', Journal of Language Identity and Education, in press. |
Abstract: | © 2021 The Author(s). This article examines textual traces of the standard language ideology within current education policy in England, focusing on post-2010 reforms which are characterised by a (re)shift towards conservatism, discipline, and standards. Using tools and methods from critical stylistics and the critical discourse analysis of language policy, I interrogate a number of mechanisms which textually reinforce and reproduce the standard language ideology: curriculum documents, assessment instruments, national test materials and guidance for teachers. Whilst previous criticisms of current policy have focused on individual policy mechanisms, in this article I examine these mechanisms as a cluster, showing how they work together as de facto language policy. I show how teachers are presented with a de-historicised and de-politicised version of standardised English which masks the structural power relations that are embedded in language, and how they are constructed as standard language role-models who have a professional duty to reproduce the standard language ideology. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/21979 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2021.1877542 |
ISSN: | 1534-8458 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Education Research Papers |
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