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Carlo G. Soberano
, Rommel A. Curaming
This paper analyses the policy processes of the National Roadmap for Global Competitiveness in Communication Skills (NRGCCS) at institutional and classroom levels. The policy adopts the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) to standardise English proficiency and enhance the global competitiveness of Filipino graduates. Drawing on qualitative data from social media posts and webpages, policy documents, classroom recordings, and fieldnotes, we trace how NRGCCS entered Blue University (BU), a private university in Manila, and how it was enacted in an Advanced Communication classroom. The findings show that NRGCCS was adapted by BU through a series of connected policy actions that involve the coalescing of institutional and Western forces, the credentialisation and compliance of lecturers, the circulation of Western materials, and the production of enterprising English speakers. We argue that NRGCCS operates as a policy synergy in which institutions, Western frameworks, testing instruments, discourses, social actors, and classroom practices align and reinforce one another across institutional and classroom levels. The analysis shows how NRGCCS assembles a roadmap towards neoliberalisation. It functions not merely as a technical reform for improving communication skills, but as a policy synergy that ties English language education to employability, internationalisation, private testing markets, Western knowledge, and the production of employable Filipino subjects.
