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Browning, Peter; Highet, Katy; Azada-Palacios, Rowena; Douek, Tania; Gong, Eleanor Yue; Sunyol, Andrea – London Review of Education, 2022
Within the spirit of conspiration, this article brings together contributions from participants of the PhD-led UCL Reading and React Group 'Colonialism(s), Neoliberalism(s) and Language Teaching and Learning', which ran in 2019/20. Weaving together various perspectives, the article centres on the dialogic nature of the decolonial enterprise and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Colonialism, Educational Change
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Ó Murchadha, Noel P. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Although traditional, unitary models of language standardisation have been prominent in minority languages, it is contended that this approach reproduces dominant language hierarchies and hegemonies, diminishes linguistic diversity and marginalises speakers who do not conform to prestige models. The polynomic model has been described as an…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Irish, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Variation
Yazan, Bedrettin; Üzüm, Melike – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
This paper explores the recent policy decision about the teaching of Ottoman Turkish at high schools in Turkey and unpacks its historical, political, and social undercurrents. It theoretically rests upon Spolsky's [2004. "Language policy". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. "Language management." Cambridge: Cambridge…
Descriptors: Turkish, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Waters, Alan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2015
The diversity of opinion about pedagogy within ELT (English Language Teaching) makes it essential that its professional discourse is sufficiently inclusive. However, this often fails to occur because ELT professional discussion is frequently too "Orwellian" in nature, i.e. behaves in a manner resembling the political structures in the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction