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Amy Thomson – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2024
In light of the results of the 2023 referendum, truth-telling should inform how educators embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across the curriculum. It is imperative that students' experiences of Indigenous content are understood, as this will inform the legitimisation of Indigenous futurity in classrooms and how teachers…
Descriptors: Ethics, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Knowledge
Brea-Spahn, María Rosa; Bauler, Clara Vaz – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Ideologies are like rocks onto which individuals and institutions anchor their thoughts about what it means to be an "ideal language user" and what "standardized languaging" is. These deeply ingrained beliefs, influenced by colonial legacies and sociopolitical contexts, invisibly enforce a hierarchical order between…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Language Attitudes, Disadvantaged, Standard Spoken Usage
Agra Rajapakse – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
This paper argues that descriptions of Sri Lankan English (SLE) are influenced by ideologies of linguistic racism and coloniality through an examination of the possible reasons for their neglect of Burgher English -- an underprivileged variety of SLE spoken by a minority community. Although descriptions of SLE identify different categories of the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Martinez, Julius C. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This sociohistorical study probes an archaeological artefact called the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI) to suggest that translingualism, a sociolinguistic orientation that foregrounds the fluidity of language boundaries, was practised by precolonial Filipinos. It then analyses how translingual practices were potentially devalued by linguistic…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Tagalog, Colonialism
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
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
M. Obaidul Hamid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The ideological role of English, beyond its instrumental value, is reported to be immense. British colonial rule deployed English as an ideological tool which facilitated colonial subjugation and religious conversion. Connections between English and evangelism have widened in the postcolonial and globalising world, leading to labelling English as…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hamamra, Bilal; Mayaleh, Asala – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This article examines the role of code-switching in recreating the place, Palestine, that contemporary Palestinian memoirist Ghada Karmi was expelled from by providing a close analysis of the code-switched expressions and the plurality of voices and perspectives that this linguistic and cultural phenomenon imply in her work "Return: A…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Authors, Code Switching (Language), Arabs
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)
Deroo, Matthew R.; Ponzio, Christina M. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Drawing upon tenets of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA), we analyzed multimodal compositions created by preservice teachers (PSTs) from two institutions to investigate their meaning-making at the nexus of language, identity, and power. Through analysis of PSTs' multimodal compositions, reflective writing about their coursework, and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
De Vos, Mark; Riedel, Kristina – Transformation in Higher Education, 2023
The #RhodesMustFall (RMF) protests at South African universities (2015--2018) were the publicly visible manifestation of deep epistemic problems in the higher education (HE) sector, particularly around questions of whose knowledges are validated and whether these are reflective of students' lived realities. This exploratory research attempted a…
Descriptors: Activism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ahmed Sahlane Ed.; Rosalind Pritchard Ed. – English Language Education, 2023
This volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy. The different chapters are inspired by 'critical interculturality' as a decolonial project that seeks to interrogate the structures, conditions, and mechanisms of colonial power relations that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Literacy Education
Brutt-Griffler, Janina – 2002
This book integrates a historical and linguistic exploration of world English, documenting the emergence of the language as a contested site of linguistic encounters. It revises the understanding of English spread during the colonial period, emphasizing the agency of non-mother-tongue English speakers. The book contends that English owes its…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Colonialism, English (Second Language)

Kyto, Merja – Language Variation and Change, 1993
In a sociohistorical variation analysis of verb inflection in Early Modern British and American English, corpus-based comparisons focus on several extralinguistic and linguistic factors that have influenced the choice of forms over successive periods of time. Contrary to customary theories of "colonial lag," the rate of change was faster…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Colonialism, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Strong, W. F. – 1994
This study investigated the strategies used by westerners, particularly American, Canadians, and Britons, to assimilate linguistically with the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. The report begins with a brief chronicling of the history of colonialism and English usage in Nigeria. The study is then described. Based on observation of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Code Switching (Language), Colonialism, English
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