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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Garamond">L2 Journal announces the publication of
a Special Issue titled: <b>Critical
Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Second/Foreign Language Education</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond">With guest editors Katie A. Bernstein, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Emily A.
Hellmich, Noah Katznelson, Jaran Shin, and Kimberly Vinall</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Accountability</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">,<i>
competitiveness</i>, <i>efficiency</i>, <i>profit: </i>While it is not
surprising to hear these terms in corporate offices around the world, it is
slightly alarming to hear these terms in reference to schools, teachers, and
students. Second/foreign language education, like education more broadly, has
not only been influenced by the language and logic of the market; it has been
responsible for reproducing many of its discourses. The coercive impact of
neoliberalism for second/foreign language education is readily observable at
multiple levels:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 41pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">1.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Language as a technicized skill</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 41pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">2.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Culture as a commodity</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 41pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">3.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Language teachers as expendable and
replaceable knowledge workers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 41pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">4.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Language learners as entrepreneurs and
consumers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 41pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">5.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The creation of a global language
teaching industry</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 41pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">6.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The emergence of new linguistic markets:
Global English</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Yet, while language has become both a target and an instrument of
neoliberalization, language education offers the possibility to develop the
critical capacities of our students as they learn to read the world and to use
language to shape and govern it. This special issue has two aims: </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">a.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">To
contribute to the growing body of research within applied linguistics,
sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and Teaching English to Speakers
of Other Languages (TESOL) that investigates neoliberalism’s impact on language
education, seeking to denaturalize neoliberal processes and uncover their
influences (i.e., Holborow, 2007; Block, Gray, & Holborow, 2012).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">b.<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(26,26,26)">To create a space for critical
perspectives that situate second/foreign language education as a site of
potential struggle against the naturalization of neoliberalism, thereby opening
the possibility for resistance and change.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond">Contents of the special issue:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Preface and Introduction to the Special Issue</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sk8g6hv" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">Preface to the Special Issue</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Kramsch, Claire</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xp597qb" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">Introduction to Special Issue:
Critical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Second / Foreign Language Education</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Bernstein, Katie A.; Hellmich, Emily A.; Katznelson, Noah; Shin, Jaran;
Vinall, Kimberly</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x30w26x" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">Mapping Conceptual Change: The
Ideological Struggle for the Meaning of EFL in Uruguayan Education</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Canale, German</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fr9w0gv" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">“More & Earlier”:
Neoliberalism and Primary English Education in Mexican Public Schools</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Sayer, Peter</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nb0q2d4" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">Language Learning as a Struggle
for Distinction in Today’s Corporate Recruitment Culture: An Ethnographic Study
of English Study Abroad Practices among South Korean Undergraduates</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Jang, In Chull</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mb2f08z" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">Space and Language Learning under
the Neoliberal Economy</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Gao, Shuang; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28h0b0bq" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">Neoliberal Discourses and the
Local Policy Implementation of an English Literacy and Civics Education Program</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">López, Dina</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/27t3v8st" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">The Coloniality of Neoliberal
English: The Enduring Structures of American Colonial English Instruction in
the Philippines and Puerto Rico</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Hsu, Funie</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/23b8g99d" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">In the Face of Neoliberal
Adversity: Engaging Language Education Policy and Practices</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Davis, Kathryn A.; Phyak, Prem</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gx093rz" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond;color:rgb(38,65,101);text-decoration:none">Neoliberalism, Universities and
the Discourse of Crisis</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond">Ramírez,
Andrés; Hyslop-Margison, Emery</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond"></span></p>
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