Intensive English programs (IEPs) have traditionally been central actors in promoting teacher professional development, curricular innovations, and applied linguistics and second language acquisition research. Yet at the same time, the programs are also central actors in neoliberal linguistic commodification. This article demonstrates how neoliberalism influences the covert policy discourses of the decision‐making processes of an IEP. Using an analytic autoethnographic approach to present an interwoven series of narratives and analyses, the article argues that IEP administrators, faculty, and staff are limited in how they can contest their complicity at propelling a neoliberal institution profiting from language education. The article also demonstrates how neoliberal positioning took precedence over pedagogical discourses in certain decision‐making processes and impeded the experimentation and exercise of an innovative curriculum, and it suggests ways that the neoliberal orientation of IEPs currently impacts and eventually may alter the nature of MA TESOL. The issues presented here not only reflect the experiences and concerns of professionals in English language teaching, but they are also timely in that IEPs have been largely underrepresented in the expanding discussions of the relationship between applied linguistics, its subfields, and neoliberalism.

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“如果我不这样做，其他人会这样做”：强化英语课程决策过程中的秘密新自由主义政策话语

传统上，强化英语课程（IEP）是促进教师专业发展，课程创新以及应用语言学和第二语言习得研究的主要角色。但与此同时，这些计划也是新自由主义语言商品化的主要参与者。本文展示了新自由主义如何影响IEP决策过程中的秘密政策话语。文章认为，使用分析型民族志方法来介绍一系列交织的叙述和分析，IEP的管理人员，教职员工在如何推动共谋推动新自由主义机构从语言教育中获利方面受到限制。本文还说明了在某些决策过程中，新自由主义的定位如何优先于教学话语，并阻碍了创新课程的实验和实施，并提出了IEP的新自由主义取向目前影响并最终可能改变MA TESOL性质的方式。 。这里提出的问题不仅反映了专业人士在英语教学中的经验和关注，而且由于在应用语言学，其子领域和新自由主义之间的关系的扩展讨论中，IEP的代表性不足，因此它们是及时的。