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Ideologies are significant symbolic phenomena that, within particular socio-historical contexts, serve to create and maintain relations of subordination between different groups (Thompson, 1984). In language studies, the investigation of language ideologies has become an expanding field of inquiry (Rohling, 2024). Language ideologies are understood as the beliefs that speakers hold about aspects such as the use, norms, forms, functions, quality, and value of languages (Silverstein, 1979; Woolard, 1998). English language ideologies (ELI), more specifically, concern ideas that either support or question the contemporary global expansion of English (Pan, 2015). Identifying and characterizing ELIs allows us to better understand the complex processes behind the worldwide diffusion of English and to avoid naturalizing hegemonic and homogenizing practices that our teaching may inadvertently reproduce.

Taisa Pinetti Passoni holds a Ph.D. in Language Studies from the State University of Londrina (UEL, Brazil), which included a doctoral research exchange at the University of Calgary, supervised by Thomas Ricento. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages (English Language) at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Linguistics. In 2024, she completed postdoctoral research on bilingual education at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU, USA), under the supervision of Luciana C. De Oliveira. Her research interests include English language teaching and learning, language policy, internationalization of higher education, and bilingual education.

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