As global language policy, English language teaching (ELT) development aid is as old as the field of language policy and planning. Contemporary discourses of ELT aid management acknowledge voices of project beneficiaries such as teachers. Beneficiary testimonials may satisfy the neoliberal demand for accountability, efficiency and evidence of impact. While this consideration of beneficiary engagement posed practical challenges in the past, new technological platforms such as websites and social media have eased the process of harnessing beneficiary voices. However, there has been limited research on beneficiary participation on the virtual space—specifically, on the discursive position from which beneficiaries speak, how they represent project interventions, and what implications their representations may have. This article examines beneficiary voices on the official website and social media spaces of a UKaid-funded project called English in Action (2009–2018) in Bangladesh. We problematise beneficiary voices and their representation of the project from the perspectives of ethics, epistemology and politics. We argue that, with their “post-truth” characteristics, beneficiary testimonials contributed to the project’s “self-branding” and to the evidence of its impact, regardless of how the storied success corresponded to the degree of change that may have been achieved on the ground.

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ELT 发展援助中的受益者声音：伦理、认识论和政治

作为全球语言政策，英语语言教学 (ELT) 发展援助与语言政策和规划领域一样古老。ELT 援助管理的当代话语承认教师等项目受益者的声音。受益人的推荐信可以满足新自由主义对问责制、效率和影响证据的要求。虽然这种对受益人参与的考虑在过去带来了实际挑战，但网站和社交媒体等新技术平台已经简化了利用受益人声音的过程。然而，关于受益人参与虚拟空间的研究有限——特别是关于受益人发言的话语立场、他们如何代表项目干预以及他们的代表可能具有什么影响。本文考察了 UKaid 资助的孟加拉国英语在行动（2009-2018）项目的官方网站和社交媒体空间上的受益者声音。我们从伦理、认识论和政治的角度对受益人的声音及其对项目的代表进行问题化。我们认为，凭借其“后真相”特征，受益人的推荐有助于项目的“自我品牌化”及其影响的证据，无论传奇的成功如何对应于可能已经实现的变化程度地面。