Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects
Language policing, development ideology, and English medium of instruction policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2908129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Prem Phyak (0000-0001-7032-1027, Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 321-343 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404523000052 |
| OpenAlex | W4323663066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 44 |
This article analyzes how English medium of instruction (EMI) policy is implemented by disciplining teachers' and students' language behaviors in school spaces. I adopt Foucault's (1977) 'discipline' to examine how schools exercise disciplinary power to create an English-only environment in multilingual classroom contexts. The data is drawn from an ethnographic study of EMI policies in two Nepali schools. The findings of the study show that schools exercise their disciplinary power through both panoptic and post-panoptic surveillance strategies to police their students' and teachers' language practices and punish them for speaking the languages other than English. Such disciplinary power is reinforced by neoliberal development ideology that legitimizes linguistic and symbolic capitals of English. While enforcing EMI policies, schools craft students' identity as disciplined English-speaking subjects who are perceived to contribute to development ideology. The article discusses some major impacts that sociolinguists can make on transforming unequal EMI language policies and practices. (Discipline, English medium of instruction (EMI), language policing
Discipline · Ethnography · Ideology · Language policy · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
English as the medium of instruction and mother-tongue-based translanguaging
Language surveillance as coloniality
State‐of‐the‐Art Review of the Research Paradigms in English Language Policy and Education
Teacher agency for Indigenous languages in education
Modeling of Public Schools
English spread’ at the interface of national and institutional EMI policies in China
Malaysia’s Dual Language Programme
Developing decolonial language awareness
Language policing and the discourse of English normativity
Secondary students' lived experiences studying in Nepali and English mediums in community based schools in Nepal
Becoming a Tesol Practitioner
Looking like a boarding school student
Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects
Dissecting the dominant framings of multilingualism in education in Pakistan
Thresholds in feminist geography
Paths to Post-Nationalism
Critical Ethnography
Language Policy and Political Economy
Thematic analysis
English with an Accent
Human Capital
Towards a social and epistemic justice approach for exploring the injustices of English as a Medium of Instruction in basic education
Surveillant landscapes
English Medium Instruction (EMI) as Linguistic Capital in Nepal
Policing language in the world of new work
Epistemic injustice and neoliberal imaginations in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) policy
Where two worlds meet
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
Media, multilingualism and language policing
Power and agency in language policy appropriation
Mediating inequalities
Coding qualitative data
Unintended Consequences
Using critical discourse analysis to operationalize discursive violence in school closure education reform policy
Schooling and development
Private schools as battlefields
Conceptualising the surveillance of teachers
Shame in English language teaching
Simultaneous identities
Discipline and Punish
Sociolinguistic Justice in the Schools
Epistemicide, deficit language ideology, and (de)coloniality in language education policy
Producing the disciplined English-speaking subjects
Neoliberalism, linguistic commodification, and ethnolinguistic identity in multilingual Nepal
Objectivity and commitment in linguistic science
The policy and policing of language in schools
Security, Territory, Population
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |