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Diego Ubaque-Casallas – HOW, 2025
This review article reflects on the notion of pedagogy in English language teaching and teacher education. To advance in the state of the art at stake, forty-four articles were profiled out of eighty-eight to trace how pedagogy has been built as a universal that carries onto-epistemological consequences. The analysis here concentrated on the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Marisa Bittar; Amarilio Ferreira Jr. – History of Education, 2024
The Portuguese policies of colonisation and Christianisation were closely linked. In 1549, the Portuguese monarchy adopted Catholicism as the official religion of the colonial administration and requested that the Society of Jesus establish the Catholic faith among the indigenous people in Brazil. The Jesuits established catechesis, founded the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Educational History, Christianity
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Hai Suk Kim; Dong Bae Lee – Cogent Education, 2023
This paper explores how Japan employed language education to justify Japanese imperial surveillance practices by examining the depiction of policemen and military police officers in Japanese language textbooks used by Korean primary students during the colonial period under Japanese rule. The analysis of the Japanese language textbooks used during…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Babaii, Esmat – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
English language teaching has always been treated as a socio-cultural issue in post-revolutionary Iran. Fueled by anti-imperialist sentiment, the political authorities diagnosed Western influence as the major ailment of the society. Having to accommodate for the undeniable virtue of learning English for international communication, educationalists…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Textbooks
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Carolyn McKinney – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Framed by decolonial theory, this paper explores how language and literacy ideologies, including Anglonormativity, or the expectation that children should be proficient in a standardised version of English and are deficient if not, shape language and literacy practices in South African classrooms. While not legitimised, the use of fluid language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Ethnography, Decolonization
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Tebogo J. Rakgogo – Transformation in Higher Education, 2024
The core objective of this article is to evaluate the progress made in linguistic development over the past three decades, with a specific focus on the role of language and its philosophical underpinnings in reshaping and decolonising South African higher education landscape. Linguistic imperialism as a conceptual framework alongside the Framework…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Segregation, Social Change, Colonialism
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Lei Xu; Nunilon G. Ayuyao; Xingshan Jiang – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of language policy in the Philippines, with a particular emphasis on the status, challenges, and future prospects of Chinese language education within the national framework. The study is structured into five distinct sections. Firstly, the historical development of language policies in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Sanchez, Aquilino; Duenas, Maria – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2002
Reviews diffusion and promotion of the Spanish language from the first Spanish colonizers in the Americas to the present. Describes the situation of Spanish within Spain as a form of internal colonialization and reviews language policies. Analyzes present-day institutional efforts at maintaining language co-existence within different autonomous…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Second Language Instruction
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Powell, Richard – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2002
Provides historical context for discussions of language planning in postcolonial societies by focusing on policies that have influenced language in three former British colonies. Suggests British colonialism, along with the emergence of America in the 20th century, is the main reason for the global role played by English today and an indispensable…
Descriptors: Colonialism, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Planning
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Hailemariam, Chefena; Kroon, Sjaak; Walters, Joel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1999
Focuses on language choice in Eritrea within the broader context of language policy in multilingual states. Pre-colonial and post-colonial language policies are surveyed in relation to evolving linguistic and political nationalism. Post-independence language policy is examined from the perspective of the functional allocation of nine Eritrean…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism
Lotherington, Heather – Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1998
Overviews trends in language education across 11 small island states in the South Pacific and notes the difficulties inherent in regional implementation of chosen bilingual-education models. Language policy is discussed in both historical and social terms, and the realization of present-day policies in the competing educational motives of economic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Colonialism, Educational Policy