Non-Localizable vs Localizable English. New Linguistic Hierarchies in 'Democratizing' English in Spanish Education
Codó, Eva (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Publicació:	London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
Resum:	Youth unemployment rates in Spain are the second highest in the EU (around 33 per cent), only after Greece (see data in Expansión 2019). The few available jobs are precarious and low paying. Many educated youngsters have come to the realization that they will not be able to reproduce their parents' status (in the case of the [upper] middle classes), let alone move upwardly. The feelings of insecurity engendered by the 2008 recession have intensified old-standing linguistic anxieties. Discourses of employability focus on developing English proficiency as a key form of self-capitalization (Martín Rojo 2019). This is certainly not new, but what is new is the intensity of the phenomenon. Spanish parents have adopted the role of careful nurturers of their children's capitals (Park 2016), engaging in fine-grained processes of school selection (Hidalgo McCabe and Fernández-González 2019). Declining birth rates have sharpened competition among schools in an increasingly marketized educational sector. The severe budget cuts imposed during the crisis have aggravated the undermining of public schooling, a process which began in the early twenty-first century with the systematic schooling of newcomer migrant children in state schools (Bonal and Zancajo 2018). . . .
Drets:	Tots els drets reservats.
Llengua:	Anglès
Col·lecció:	Bloomsbury World Englishes ; 2
Document:	Capítol de llibre
Publicat a:	Ideologies, 2021, p. 234-252, ISBN 978-1-3500-6587-1

DOI: 10.5040/9781350065871.0023

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