ABSTRACT

Covid-19 has occasioned ongoing shifts in discourse as language changes to reflect and shape new stages of the global pandemic and different voices weigh in on topics, such as infectious diseases and vaccine efficacy. This study looks at an instance of this that relates to the ‘global education industry’, where cancellation of the International Baccalaureate’s May 2020 high stakes examination instigated a wide-ranging discussion about the organisation. This was triggered by the publication of IB results for 174,355 students in 146 countries, many of which showed large discrepancies between predicted and final grades. Using computer-assisted discourse analysis and a corpus of tweets containing the hashtag #ibscandal, patterns of language use are analysed, providing valuable new insights into the impact on students in different national contexts.

摘要

Covid-19 引发了话语的持续转变，因为语言发生了变化以反映和塑造全球大流行的新阶段，不同的声音对传染病和疫苗功效等话题产生了影响。本研究着眼于与“全球教育行业”相关的一个实例，取消国际文凭组织 2020 年 5 月的高风险考试引发了对该组织的广泛讨论。这是由 146 个国家 174,355 名学生的 IB 成绩公布引发的，其中许多学生的预测成绩和最终成绩之间存在巨大差异。使用计算机辅助话语分析和包含#ibscandal 标签的推文语料库，分析语言使用模式，为不同国家背景下对学生的影响提供有价值的新见解。