In this chapter, I discuss how my experiences as a student, teacher and coordinator led me to inquire into the way that ELT policies influence the work of teachers in public schools. This study focuses on a public primary school in the Ciudad Bolívar District (Bogotá, Colombia), where I work and discusses my attempts, as a primary school administrator, to adapt those policies to the primary section of my school and analyze the relation between education and bilingualism in my school. First, I describe my school and the surrounding community and speak of the standpoint on ELT of the students, teachers, parents, and administrators. Then, I give an account of the policies that made the English language a mandatory subject, and some of the ELT programs in Bogotá. At the end, I present the questions and the objectives of this study of ELT policies.
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