Research Article

Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography

Number: 31 December 21, 2022
  • Ömer Gökhan Ulum *
  • Eser Ordem
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Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography

Abstract

English language teaching departments have been regarded as neutral and prestigious for more than a century. However, the colonial, neocolonial, postcolonial and neoliberal practices of these departments are forgotten. In this study, we aim to deconstruct this ideology and develop a critical perspective within the framework of critical pedagogy and critical discourse analysis. Both of these two approaches aim to analyze power, power relations, forms of knowledge and subjective experiences. This study is based on collaborative autoethnography that prioritizes researchers` beliefs, experiences, observations and stories. We asked 10 guiding questions that showed how we came to reject our current identity in ELT discipline that produced various forms of knowledge that constitute certain discursive practices. We aimed to show that ELT departments in Turkey are a continuation of this colonial and neoliberal mind, and therefore a new space should be created for other languages to take their place on social circles. We strongly recommend that ELT departments can incorporate lessons that reinforce criticality, critical pedagogy and critical discourse analysis so that the real historical conditions could be shown to the students and teacher candidates in these departments. Therefore, new discourses can be constituted and produced to allow novel subjective experiences and practices.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics, Studies on Education

Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Ömer Gökhan Ulum * This is me
0000-0001-7685-6356
Türkiye

Publication Date

December 21, 2022

Submission Date

November 16, 2022

Acceptance Date

December 20, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Number: 31

APA
Ulum, Ö. G., & Ordem, E. (2022). Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 31, 1515-1522. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1222348
AMA
1.Ulum ÖG, Ordem E. Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography. RumeliDE. 2022;(31):1515-1522. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1222348
Chicago
Ulum, Ömer Gökhan, and Eser Ordem. 2022. “Deconstructing ELT Ideology and Normalized Discourses through Critical Discourse Analysis: Collaborative Autoethnography”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, nos. 31: 1515-22. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1222348.
EndNote
Ulum ÖG, Ordem E (December 1, 2022) Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 31 1515–1522.
IEEE
[1]Ö. G. Ulum and E. Ordem, “Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography”, RumeliDE, no. 31, pp. 1515–1522, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.29000/rumelide.1222348.
ISNAD
Ulum, Ömer Gökhan - Ordem, Eser. “Deconstructing ELT Ideology and Normalized Discourses through Critical Discourse Analysis: Collaborative Autoethnography”. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. 31 (December 1, 2022): 1515-1522. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1222348.
JAMA
1.Ulum ÖG, Ordem E. Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography. RumeliDE. 2022;:1515–1522.
MLA
Ulum, Ömer Gökhan, and Eser Ordem. “Deconstructing ELT Ideology and Normalized Discourses through Critical Discourse Analysis: Collaborative Autoethnography”. RumeliDE Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, no. 31, Dec. 2022, pp. 1515-22, doi:10.29000/rumelide.1222348.
Vancouver
1.Ömer Gökhan Ulum, Eser Ordem. Deconstructing ELT ideology and normalized discourses through critical discourse analysis: Collaborative autoethnography. RumeliDE. 2022 Dec. 1;(31):1515-22. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1222348