[Linganth] New special issue of L2 Journal - Neoliberalism and Language Education

[Katie Bernstein]

L2 Journal announces the publication of a Special Issue titled: *Critical
Perspectives on Neoliberalism in Second/Foreign Language Education*



With guest editors Katie A. Bernstein, Emily A. Hellmich, Noah Katznelson,
Jaran Shin, and Kimberly Vinall



*Accountability*,* competitiveness*, *efficiency*, *profit: *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:



1.       Language as a technicized skill

2.       Culture as a commodity

3.       Language teachers as expendable and replaceable knowledge workers

4.       Language learners as entrepreneurs and consumers

5.       The creation of a global language teaching industry

6.       The emergence of new linguistic markets: Global English



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:



a.     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).



b.     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.



Contents of the special issue:

*Preface and Introduction to the Special Issue*

*Preface to the Special Issue* <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sk8g6hv>

*Kramsch, Claire*



*Introduction to Special Issue: Critical Perspectives on Neoliberalism in
Second / Foreign Language Education*
<http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xp597qb>

*Bernstein, Katie A.; Hellmich, Emily A.; Katznelson, Noah; Shin, Jaran;
Vinall, Kimberly*



*Articles*

*Mapping Conceptual Change: The Ideological Struggle for the Meaning of EFL
in Uruguayan Education* <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x30w26x>

*Canale, German*



*“More & Earlier”: Neoliberalism and Primary English Education in Mexican
Public Schools* <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fr9w0gv>

*Sayer, Peter*



*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*
<http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nb0q2d4>

*Jang, In Chull*



*Space and Language Learning under the Neoliberal Economy*
<http://escholarship.org/uc/item/3mb2f08z>

*Gao, Shuang; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul*



*Neoliberal Discourses and the Local Policy Implementation of an English
Literacy and Civics Education Program*
<http://escholarship.org/uc/item/28h0b0bq>

*López, Dina*



*The Coloniality of Neoliberal English: The Enduring Structures of American
Colonial English Instruction in the Philippines and Puerto Rico*
<http://escholarship.org/uc/item/27t3v8st>

*Hsu, Funie*



*In the Face of Neoliberal Adversity: Engaging Language Education Policy
and Practices* <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/23b8g99d>

*Davis, Kathryn A.; Phyak, Prem*



*Neoliberalism, Universities and the Discourse of Crisis*
<http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gx093rz>

*Ramírez, Andrés; Hyslop-Margison, Emery*
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