Premises, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Undoing Competence: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries

Language LearningEarly View IN PERSPECTIVE Premises, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of Undoing Competence: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries This article relates to: Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics Nelson Flores, Jonathan Rosa, Language Learning First Published online: October 31, 2022 Jonathan Rosa, Corresponding Author Jonathan Rosa [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-4794-0537 Stanford University Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University, Graduate School of Education, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, California 94305, United States. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorNelson Flores, Nelson Flores orcid.org/0000-0003-3864-7806 University of PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author Jonathan Rosa, Corresponding Author Jonathan Rosa [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-4794-0537 Stanford University Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University, Graduate School of Education, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, California 94305, United States. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorNelson Flores, Nelson Flores orcid.org/0000-0003-3864-7806 University of PennsylvaniaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12564 The handling editor for this article was Teresa Satterfield. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References Ahmed, S. (2012). On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. Duke University Press. Berlant, L. (2011). Cruel optimism. Duke University Press. Elegant, N. (2018, April 11). Penn removes portrait of a former GSE dean with alleged history of sexual harassment. The Daily Pennsylvanian. https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/04/gse-getup-sexual-harassment-dell-hymes-portrait-removal-upenn-penn-philadelphia Ferguson, R. A. (2012). The reorder of things: The university and its pedagogies of minority difference. University of Minnesota Press. Gal, S., & Irvine, J. (2019). Signs of difference: Language and ideology in social life. Cambridge University Press. Hymes, D. (1966). On communicative competence. In Office of Education, Research Planning Conference on Language Development in Disadvantaged Children (pp. 1– 17). Department of Health, Education and Welfare. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED027346 Heller, M., & McElhinny, B. (2017). Language, capitalism, colonialism: Toward a critical history. University of Toronto Press. Kubota, R., & Takeda, Y. (2020). Language-in-education policies in Japan versus transnational workers’ voices: Two faces of neoliberal communication competence. TESOL Quarterly, 55(2), 458– 485. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.613 Nishiyama, H. (2015). Towards a global genealogy of biopolitics: Race, colonialism, and biometrics beyond Europe. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33(2), 331– 346. https://doi.org/10.1068/d19912 Norton, B. (1995). Social identity, investment, and language learning. TESOL Quarterly, 29(1), 9– 31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3587803 Park, J. (2010). Naturalization of competence and the neoliberal subject: Success stories of English language learning in the Korean conservative press. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 20(1), 22– 38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1395.2010.01046.x Urciuoli, B. (2011). Discussion essay: Semiotic properties of racializing discourses. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 21(1), E113– E122. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.01100.x Wynter, S. (1994). No humans involved: An open letter to my colleagues. Forum N.H.I.: Knowledge for the 21st Century, 1(1), 42– 73. http://carmenkynard.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/No-Humans-Involved-An-Open-Letter-to-My-Colleagues-by-SYLVIA-WYNTER.pdf Wynter, S. (2003). Unsettling the coloniality of being/power/truth/freedom: Towards the human, after man, its overrepresentation – An argument. CR: The New Centennial Review, 3(3), 253– 337. https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2004.0015 Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation