EMI 的(不)公正:对米兰理工大学法庭案件中两个主要利益相关者观点的批判性话语分析

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI:10.1515/jelf-2024-2002
Beatrice Zuaro, Dogan Yuksel, Peter Wingrove, Marion Nao, Anna K. Hultgren
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英语教学(English-medium Instruction,EMI)对各利益相关方仍有吸引力,但同时也引发了一些认识论和伦理方面的问题,这些问题过去曾在两极分化的辩论中有所体现。一个著名的例子是 2012 年的米兰法庭案件,在该案中,学术人员起诉米兰理工大学试图推行纯英语教学政策。案件发生近十年后的今天,该政策主要支持者和反对者的动机仍有待深入探讨。为了解释对 EMI 的不同解释为何会导致如此不可调和的立场,我们在本文中采用了一个新的分析角度,重点关注两位精英参与者:推动该政策的校长和在法庭上代表讲师的律师(也是一名教师)。通过对这些参与者的访谈进行批判性话语分析,我们旨在揭示来自同一背景的不同利益相关者如何将 EMI 与正义/公正理念联系起来。结果表明,尽管参与者对教育的个人承诺相当,对语言/权力互动的理解相似,但他们对英语的评价却有不同的参照系(即全球化教育的视野与传统国家对教育目标的理解)。这就导致了对英语在高等教育中日益增长的地位的截然相反的评价。
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The (in)justice of EMI: a critical discourse analysis of two key stakeholders’ views on the Polytechnic University of Milan court case
While English-medium Instruction (EMI) continues to be appealing for various stakeholders, it also raises some epistemological and ethical concerns, which have in the past found expression in polarized debates. A well-known example is the 2012 Milan court case, in which the academic staff sued the Polytechnic University of Milan over its attempt to promote an EMI-only policy. Now almost ten years after the case, the motivations of the key proponents and opponents of the policy are yet to be explored in depth. In order to explain how different interpretations of EMI could result in such unreconcilable positions, in this paper we adopt a new analytical angle, focusing on two elite participants: the rector who promoted the policy and the lawyer (also a faculty member) who represented the lecturers in court. Via a critical discourse analysis of interviews to these participants, we aim to unveil how different stakeholders from the same context frame EMI in relation to ideas of justice/injustice. Results indicate that, despite comparable personal commitment to education and similar understandings of language/power interactions, the participants evaluate English against different frames of reference (i.e. a horizon of globalized education, versus the traditional national understanding of the goals of education). This leads to diametrically opposite evaluations of the growing presence of English in higher education.
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期刊介绍: The Journal of English as a Lingua Franca (JELF) is the first journal to be devoted to the rapidly-growing phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca. The articles and other features explore this global phenomenon from a wide number of perspectives, including linguistic, sociolinguistic, socio-psychological, and political, in a diverse range of settings where English is the common language of choice.
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