Enunciative Practices in English Pedagogy. Profiling the Literature from a Border- Perspective

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Diego Ubaque-Casallas
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8116-9163

Abstract

This review article reflects on the notion of pedagogy in English language teaching and teacher education. To advance in the state of the art at stake, forty-four articles were profiled out of eighty-eight to trace how pedagogy has been built as a universal that carries onto-epistemological consequences. The analysis here concentrated on the enunciation levels the studies inspected. This manuscript discusses four categories: Critical Decolonial, Translanguaging, and Anti-racist pedagogies. It anchors the conversation from a border-thinking perspective to claim that most approaches to pedagogy focus on protesting against Modern/Colonial pedagogy, but there is little contestation concerning it. This posture contributes to shifting the geography of reason concerning English language pedagogy.

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Ubaque-Casallas, D. (2025). Enunciative Practices in English Pedagogy. Profiling the Literature from a Border- Perspective. HOW, 32(1), 160–185. https://doi.org/10.19183/how.32.1.799
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Reflections and Revision of Themes
Author Biography

Diego Ubaque-Casallas, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas

He is an English language teacher and teacher educator who works at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Diego holds an MA degree in Applied Linguistics to TEFL, and is currently studying in the Interinstitutional Doctoral program (DIE) at the same university. 

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