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Direct linkSyed Abdul Manan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Employing neoliberal governmentality as a conceptual frame, this paper presents evidence from the mushrooming English language academies from Pakistan to demonstrate that how neoliberal rationality as a normative order of reason governs the minds of learners and teachers without governing. Drawing on the analysis of an open-ended interview…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Commercialization, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
Shin, Hyunjung; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This special issue aims to develop a research agenda that brings language to the centre of our inquiry and critique of neoliberalism. Based on empirical case studies from across diverse contexts in Europe, North America, and East Asia, contributors to this special issue address two issues: (1) What can be said about the nature of neoliberalism…
Descriptors: Language Research, Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Park, Joseph Sung-Yul – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Language occupies a crucial position in neoliberalism, due to the reimagination of language as commodified skill. This paper studies the role of language ideology in this transformation by identifying a particular ideology that facilitates this process, namely the ideology which views language as pure potential. Neoliberalism treats language as a…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Role
Codó, Eva; Sunyol, Andrea – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Mandarin Chinese is the fastest growing foreign language by number of students in the world [Ding and Saunders 2006. "Talking up China: An Analysis of China's Rising Cultural Power and Global Promotion of the Chinese Language." "East Asia" 23 (2): 3-33], but little is known about how it is taking hold in compulsory education in…
Descriptors: International Schools, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning
"Just Go Away and Do It and You Get Marks": The Degradation of Language Teaching in Neoliberal Times
Block, David; Gray, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The marketization of education in countries like the UK may be seen as part and parcel of the rise of neoliberalism as the dominant shaper of policy and practice in many societies from the late twentieth century onwards. This paper explores how marketization has impacted on two initial teacher preparation programmes and focuses on the Cambridge…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Marketing
Kubota, Ryuko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Neoliberal ideology compels people to develop language skills as human capital. As English is considered to be the most useful language for global communication, learning, and teaching, English has been promoted in many countries. However, the belief that English connects people from diverse linguistic backgrounds in a borderless society…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Language Attitudes, Human Capital, Qualitative Research
