Conceptualizations of competence that permeate applied linguistics systematically fail to account for the role of racialization in language learning and assessments thereof. To interrogate the racialization of linguistic competence, we first examine its discursive emergence in conjunction with the ideological construction of linguistic homogeneity as central to the naturalization of race within the context of European colonialism. We then track how ideas about linguistic competence took shape jointly with a genre of the human that is overrepresented as white, as well as how this particular genre of the human informed foundational conceptualizations of communicative competence. After analyzing relevant examples of how communicative competence has been taken up in ways that reify this racializing ideology, we end with an alternative conceptualization of the goals of language learning that focuses on the worldviews and lifeways of racialized communities to move beyond universalizing conceptions of competence as the desired outcome.

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取消能力：应用语言学中的殖民性、同质性和白度的过度表现

渗透应用语言学的能力概念化系统地未能解释种族化在语言学习及其评估中的作用。为了探究语言能力的种族化，我们首先将其话语的出现与语言同质性的意识形态建构结合起来，作为欧洲殖民主义背景下种族归化的核心。然后，我们跟踪关于语言能力的想法是如何与被过度代表为白人的人类体裁共同形成的，以及这种特殊的人类体裁如何为交际能力的基础概念化提供信息。在分析了交际能力如何以具体化这种种族化意识形态的方式的相关例子之后，