Decolonizing Foreign Language Education: The Misteaching of English and Other Colonial Languages

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Decolonizing Foreign Language Education interrogates current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white, western thought. Edited by acclaimed critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo, this volume includes cutting-edge work by a select group of critical language scholars working to rigorously challenge the marginalization of foreign language education and the displacement of indigenous and non-standard language varieties through the reification of colonial languages. Each chapter confronts the hold of colonialism and imperialism that inform and shape the relationship between foreign language education and literary studies by asserting that a critical approach to applied linguistics is just as important a tool for FL/ESL/EFL educators as literature or linguistic theory. Dedication Foreword | Michel DeGraff Credits 1. Rupturing the Yoke of Colonialism in Foreign Language Education: An Introduction | Donaldo Macedo 2. Between Globalization and Decolonization: Foreign Languages in the Cross-Fire | Claire Kramsch 3. Time for a Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Language Education? Revisiting Rationales, Evidence, and Outcomes | Timothy Reagan, Terry A. Osborn 4. SLA for the 21st Century: Disciplinary Progress, Transdisciplinary Relevance, and the Bi/multilingual Turn* | Lourdes Ortega 5. Towards Decolonizing Heritage Language Teacher Education | Theresa Austin 6. Decolonizing Foreign, Second, Heritage, and First Languages: Implications for Education | Ofelia García 7. From Translanguaging to Translingual Activism | Alastair Pennycook 8. A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging | Jeff MacSwan 9. English Language Learning in Globalized Third Spaces: From Monocultural Standardization to Hybridized Translanguaging | David Hemphill, Erin Blakely 10. Mapping the Web of Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education | Hatice Çelebi 11. Decolonizing World Language Education: Toward Multilingualism | François Victor Tochon Index