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Kimura, Daisuke; Tsai, Aurora – ELT Journal, 2023
With the goal of contributing to ongoing efforts to decolonize ELT, this article addresses the potential of microanalytic research into classroom interaction in disrupting hegemonic forces of coloniality. Microanalytic research provides a step-by-step, minute examination of interactional discourse, and it has the capacity to reveal gaps between…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kim, Miso – ELT Journal, 2023
This article adopts a sociomaterial perspective on ELT materials and illustrates how a mandatory textbook is used as a springboard to create decolonizing relations in the classroom ecology. Sociomaterial perspectives view learning as not the transmission but the emergence of knowledge from embodied relations, which shifts the focus from the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Isabel Aven; Gisela Hoecherl-Alden – NECTFL Review, 2024
This paper explores ways to integrate social justice issues pertaining to decolonization and anti-racism into the world language classroom at all levels of instruction. It describes tasks designed to introduce language learners briefly to German colonialism, raise awareness of colonial legacies in contemporary German-speaking societies, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Change, Racism
Phachara Saiphet – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
In the English as a foreign language context of Thailand, students struggle to learn English, but scarcely use it in their daily lives. How a teacher lessens students' suffering caused by this unjust circumstance is worth examining. This study employs a betweener autoethnography as a method of inquiry to investigate my experiences as a Thai…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Claudia Patricia Gutiérrez; Estefanía Frías Epinayú – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
Coloniality in education and language policies continues to impact Indigenous communities in implicit and complex ways. In this article, we describe the case of Colombia where, like in many other countries in the Global South, educational policy messages are contradictory. While ethno-education policies purport to sustain Indigenous languages and…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Colonialism, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Park, Joseph Sung-Yul – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2022
This paper discusses how critiquing the convergence of neoliberalism and coloniality can become a crucial juncture for imagining alternatives to neoliberal foreign language education. Neoliberalism and coloniality are both mediated by aspects of subjectivity, which not only obscures their co-dependence, but also naturalizes their logic as they…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Moral Values, Foreign Countries, Criticism
Hamza R'boul – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper discusses how the political interplay between English-in-society and English-in-education policy in the Global South(s) facilitates what I term 'English as a subtle technology of policy distraction' in postcolonial spheres that were colonised by languages other than English. 'English as a subtle technology of policy distraction' is…
Descriptors: Postcolonialism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Role
Banister, Chris – ELT Journal, 2023
The inherent coloniality of ELT, as both driver and product of Anglophone political power, poses particular challenges for ELT teachers and learners looking to engage with decolonizing agendas. With only scant evidence of these agendas translating into ELT practice, I explored decolonial options, counter-hegemonic actions, with my undergraduate…
Descriptors: Business English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Heinrichs, Danielle H.; Hager, Gail; McCormack, Brittany A.; Lazaroo, Natalie – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This article aims to visibilise the opportunities for decolonising standardised language practices for multilingual students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in Australian schools. We suggest that a decolonising approach to language education would value the multilingual, non-standard, and diverse language practices of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
Chugani Molina, Sarina – CATESOL Journal, 2022
The powerful undercurrents and rooted presence of coloniality continue to influence the field of English language teaching today (Kubota, 2016). Motha (2014) argues that our field in its historicity and embedded colonial lineage is inherently intertwined with notions of race and power. The language of the colonized is considered by the colonizers…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Colonialism
Ordem, Eser – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study aims to motivate researchers, teachers and learners to utilize critical social research methodology in the field of second language learning and teaching in which neoliberalism and neocolonialism have been profoundly embedded and overwhelmingly dominant. Therefore, critical reflection (CR), participatory action (PAR) and emancipatory…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Action Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Meighan, Paul?J. – ELT Journal, 2023
There is a relationship between language and the environment. Languages shape worldviews, inform behaviours, and are not disconnected from local political, sociocultural, and ecological contexts. English has an enduring colonial, imperialist, and assimilationist legacy and can be easily delinked from context, culture, and place. In this article,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Equal Education
Meighan, Paul J. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
Translanguaging and plurilingual approaches in English Language Education (ELE) have been important for envisaging more equitable language education. However, the languages implemented in translanguaging or plurilingual classrooms predominantly reflect the knowledge and belief systems of dominant, nation-state, "official", and/or…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Western Civilization
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
Cabral, Brian – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Language assessments are often framed as benign mechanisms needed to objectively classify people's linguistic proficiencies. In this article, I argue for the need to critically re-examine how purportedly objective institutional language assessments and our participation in them deceptively reify historical and contemporary inequities. I offer the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Tests, Access to Education, Educational Opportunities
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