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ELF and Applied Linguistics
With help from a global cast of scholars, Kumiko Murata explores the remodelling of the discipline of applied linguistics, which traditionally regarded Anglophone native-speaker English as the standard for English as a lingua franca (ELF). This edited volume probes the dichotomy between the current focus of applied linguistic research and a drastically changed English use in a globalised world. This division is approached from diverse perspectives and with the overarching understanding of ELF as an indispensable area of applied linguistics research. The volume includes theoretical backgrounds to English as a lingua franca, the nature of ELF interactions, language policy and practice from an ELF perspective, and the relationship between multilingualism and ELF. A resourceful book not only to ELF researchers but also applied linguists in general, as well as policy makers, administrators, practicing teachers, and university students from diverse linguacultural backgrounds.
English as a Lingua Franca in Teacher Education
A lingua franca perspective into English language teaching in Brazil has only recently take flight. As an emerging economy, the country faces enormous challenges when it comes to language education in schools, where English has traditionally been taught as a foreign language. This collection brings the perspectives of academics and language practitioners in their efforts to incorporate an ELF approach into teacher education, thus offering a voice sorely missed in the international community interested in developing new approaches to English in a global world.
Foundational Concepts of Decolonial and Southern Epistemologies
This book brings together 11 prominent scholars and political activists to discuss and explore issues around postcolonialism, decoloniality, Theories of the South and Epistemologies of the South. These wide-ranging discussions touch upon issues from academic research methods and writing conventions to global struggles for justice. Together the chapters, as well as the interventions from forum participants which are characteristic of this series, paint a complex and dynamic picture of areas of thought and action that are constantly evolving in response to the demands of a world in flux. The book is a major intervention in current debates about the geopolitics of knowledge, as well as an illustration of the ways in which scholarship in the Global North(s) is indebted to the diverse traditions of scholarship in the Global South(s).
Critical Intercultural Pedagogy for Difficult Times
This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises. The book draws on case studies from a range of educational contexts in the Global South which engage in creative arts methodologies to foreground decolonising approaches to intercultural communication in which researchers question their own power in the research process. The volume offers intercultural resources that can be used by researchers and community support groups to foster active intercultural c...
The Anti-Racism Linguist
This book explores language at the intersection of race and ethnicity and the institutional practices that still make for uneven access to education, resources and a sense of belonging. It takes a clear anti-racist stance in the way it examines issues of language and power, linguistic prejudice, attitudes toward language and linguistic varieties. The chapters cover the experiences of the authors in their personal and professional lives, combining traditional academic texts with highly identity-driven genres that include autoethnography and the reflective essay, in addition to providing narrated resources for teachers. The result is a dynamic, innovative volume that dialogues openly with one of the most serious and pertinent debates of our time: how to instigate institutional change that moves us away from racist practices. The book is a reflection on how teachers and scholars can incorporate anti-racism pedagogy and thought into their practice.
Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire
This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April Biccum critically examines the ways in which development in its current form has recently begun to be promoted among the metropolitan public. Biccum contends that what has begun is a sustained marketing campaign for development that is a repetition, augmentation and ultimately much greater success of the work of the Empire Marketing Board of 1926. Demonstrating how this marketing campaign for deve...
debaRtendo
Esse conjunto de ensaios acadêmicos (ou nem tanto) foi inspirado no programa debaRtendo, que tem o objetivo de popularizar a linguística aplicada e levar para dentro da academia questões da vida que nem sempre adentram os muros da ciência. Tensionando a distância entre as teorias e as práticas, os textos que aqui se encontram são diálogos com diversos episódios do debaRtendo nos quais alunas-es-os de pós-graduação de 3 IES brasileiras problematizam o cotidiano à luz da ciência.
O desenvolvimento de agência na formação docente em línguas
Diante de tempos que exigem atitudes de emancipação e transformação por parte de seus cidadãos, esta obra traz conceitos, reflexões e indagações a respeito de como a formação docente é capaz (ou não) de promover o desenvolvimento de agência entre professores de línguas. Partindo de uma pesquisa com um grupo de professores de inglês do norte do Brasil, “O desenvolvimento de agência na formação docente em línguas: desafios e possibilidades” tece um profundo diálogo com o histórico da formação docente em línguas no Brasil, suas perspectivas futuras e sua situação atual.
Bate-papo com educadores linguísticos
Em tempos de questionamentos em relação à validade e à relevância das pesquisas produzidas nas Ciências Humanas e Sociais; em um momento em que os cursos de educação superior, em especial os das áreas mencionadas, sofrem graves ataques; e nosso direito à liberdade de expressão é ofuscado por um discurso e atitudes conservadores que ganham cada dia mais força, este livro, Bate-papo com educadores linguísticos: Letramentos, formação docente e criticidade, surge para dar voz a professores, pesquisadores, linguistas e linguistas aplicados para que discutam a Educação Linguística em inglês por meio de temas atuais e, mais do que nunca, necessários. Poderia ser mais uma obra em que especialistas são convidados a responder uma ou algumas questões propostas pelos organizadores, mas não é. Os questionamentos são formulados por alunos graduandos e pós-graduandos da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, integrantes do Grupo de Estudos sobre Educação Crítica em Língua Estrangeira (GEEC-LE), além de professores da rede pública, inspirados pelas leituras de textos escritos e palestras proferidas pelos autores dos diversos capítulos.
English-Medium Instruction from an English as a Lingua Franca Perspective
English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) in communicative situations the world over with the acceleration of globalisation. This is in line with the increased introduction of English-medium instruction (EMI) to higher education institutions in many parts of the world to further promote both students’ and faculty’s mobility to make them competitive and employable in the globalised world, and to make their institutions more attractive and reputable. EMI and ELF, however, are rarely explicitly investigated together despite the fact that the spread of EMI cannot be separated from that of ELF. This volume tackles the issue head on by focusing on EMI in higher education from an EL...
