[lg policy] bibitem: Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice

[Harold Schiffman]

Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice
Editors: A. Suresh Canagarajah

Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
Bilingualism - Second Language; Bilingualism / ESL; Social Psychology;
Publisher: Routledge, USA

Summary

This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about
language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the
effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such
diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while
the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions
of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of
globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming
the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing
specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the
communities affected by these changes. The authors make a case for why
it is important for local social practices, communicative conventions,
linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform
language policies and practices for classrooms and communities in
specific contexts, and to critically inform those pertaining to other
communities.

Engaging with the dominant paradigms in the discipline of applied
linguistics, the chapters include research relating to second language
acquisition, sociolinguistics, literacy, and language planning. The
majority of chapters are case studies of specific contexts and
communities, focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their
local contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion
of their relevance for other, different communities and contexts.
Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of
reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating with
the present and the global. They illuminate the paradox that the local
contains complex values of diversity, multilingualism, and plurality
that can help to reconceive the multilingual society and education for
postmodern times.

Table of Contents

Contents: E. Hinkel, Series Editor Foreword. Preface. Introduction.
Part I: Redefining Disciplinary Constructs. S. Canagarajah,
Reconstructing Local Knowledge, Reconfiguring Language Studies. R.M.
Bhatt, Expert Discourses, Local Practices, and Hybridity: The Case of
Indian Englishes. D. Ryon, Language Death Studies and Local Knowledge:
The Case of Cajun French. L.M.T. Menezes de Souza, The Ecology of
Writing Among the Kashinawá: Indigenous Multimodality in Brazil.
Part II: Interrogating Language Policies. K. Rajagopalan, The Language
Issue in Brazil: When Local Knowledge Clashes With Expert Knowledge.
M.K. David, S. Govindasamy, Negotiating a Language Policy for
Malaysia: Local Demand for Affirmative Action Versus Challenges From
Globalization. S. Utakis, M.D. Pita, An Educational Policy for
Negotiating Transnationalism: The Dominican Community in New York
City. Part III: Reframing Professional Lives. D. Block, Convergence
and Resistance in the Construction of Personal and Professional
Identities: Four French Modern Language Teachers in London. A. Lin, W.
Wang, N. Akamatsu, M. Riazi, International TESOL Professionals and
Teaching English for Globalized Communication (TEGCOM) Part IV:
Imagining Classroom Possibilities. P. Martin, Talking Knowledge Into
Being in an Upriver Primary School in Brunei. J.C.M. Luk, Voicing the
"Self" Through an "Other" Language: Exploring Communicative Language
Teaching for Global Communication. E. Mermann-Jozwiak, N. Sullivan,
Local Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Languages and Literatures of
the United States-Mexico Borderlands.

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