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Article: Official policies of English language education in Iran: ‘policy as discourse’ in national documents
Title | Official policies of English language education in Iran: ‘policy as discourse’ in national documents |
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Keywords | English language policy English language teaching English teaching in Iran language education policy policy as discourse qualitative content analysis |
Issue Date | 7-Sep-2023 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Citation | Asian Englishes, 2023 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Considering the uncontested global status of English today, overt and covert policies of English language teaching (ELT) have shaped a significant area of broader national language (education) policies. In this study we investigated nine major national policy documents to portray the overall official ELT policies in Iran. The documents were explored through qualitative content analysis in search of manifest statements and conceptual categories that provided educational policy directions. Adopting a view of policy as discourse, we coded statements directly related to ELT and those related to language education, as well as generic statements about all subject areas, which were interpreted to include the teaching and learning of English. The discursive climate of the overall official Iranian ELT policy appeared to be mainly shaped by policy directions focusing on Islamic values, Iranian Revolutionism, and character and morality, along with some language-teaching specifics. The findings may indicate that beyond issues of policy incompleteness, the Iranian official ELT policy may be suffering from policy indeterminacy. We argue that in contexts like Iran, more coherent ELT policies may be needed to account for both the ideological nature of English and its practical applicability in the world today. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/341925 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.215 |
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dc.contributor.author | Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid | - |
dc.contributor.author | Miryouness, Haghi Mahshid | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-26T05:38:15Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-03-26T05:38:15Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-07 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Asian Englishes, 2023 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1348-8678 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/341925 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Considering the uncontested global status of English today, overt and covert policies of English language teaching (ELT) have shaped a significant area of broader national language (education) policies. In this study we investigated nine major national policy documents to portray the overall official ELT policies in Iran. The documents were explored through qualitative content analysis in search of manifest statements and conceptual categories that provided educational policy directions. Adopting a view of policy as discourse, we coded statements directly related to ELT and those related to language education, as well as generic statements about all subject areas, which were interpreted to include the teaching and learning of English. The discursive climate of the overall official Iranian ELT policy appeared to be mainly shaped by policy directions focusing on Islamic values, Iranian Revolutionism, and character and morality, along with some language-teaching specifics. The findings may indicate that beyond issues of policy incompleteness, the Iranian official ELT policy may be suffering from policy indeterminacy. We argue that in contexts like Iran, more coherent ELT policies may be needed to account for both the ideological nature of English and its practical applicability in the world today.<br></p> | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis Group | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Asian Englishes | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | English language policy | - |
dc.subject | English language teaching | - |
dc.subject | English teaching in Iran | - |
dc.subject | language education policy | - |
dc.subject | policy as discourse | - |
dc.subject | qualitative content analysis | - |
dc.title | Official policies of English language education in Iran: ‘policy as discourse’ in national documents | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13488678.2023.2251738 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85169932168 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2331-2548 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:001060800200001 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1348-8678 | - |