34.25, FYI: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context

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Subject: 34.25, FYI: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context

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From: Chris Shei [ccshei at gmail.com]
Subject: The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context


Call for chapter proposals
The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context
Edited by Chris Shei and Der-lin Chao

The world has undergone some dramatic changes since 2019, first with
the covid-19 pandemic killing more than six million people across the
globe; then with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
causing a dire shortage in food and energy and disruption to world
economy, not to mention explicit threats of nuclear warfare made by
authoritarian leaders. Among the political turmoil that causes
life-threatening changes to people around the globe, language is by
far the most important medium through which the changes are
verbalized, conceptualized and dealt with. It is imperative for
language teachers and textbook writers to be keenly aware of the
influence of current affairs on language or reflected by it and design
their materials and activities accordingly. Language learning and
teaching should now be a dynamic experience so that the learner
registers changes in the global contexts through fresh perspectives
provided by the new language and initiates a response at the
linguistic, cognitive and sociopolitical levels.

A particular concern in the changing global environment described
above is the increasing use of language as a vehicle to embed ideology
and political dogma in media discourse, social networks, government
propaganda, and educational materials, especially in authoritarian
states, where children learn patriotic thoughts and acquire
nationalistic sentiments from textbooks provided by the government;
whereas adults’ minds are deliberately conditioned by heavily censored
pro-government media discourse and patriotic messages. Research
efforts are sorely needed to investigate the process of how language
assists in the formation of ideology and whether it is possible to
reverse the effect of ideological imposition in the psychological
constructs of individuals.
The handbook is divided into six sections in its initial design.
Section 1 explores the changing effect of sociocultural, political,
economic, ethical, legal, technical, psychophysiological (etc.)
variables surrounding language learners in the new global context and
how to respond to them in useful and responsible ways. Section 2 deals
with the issue of implantation of ideology in language through
education and media control, including how ideology is imposed through
language learning, the linguistic representation of ideology in the
mind, and how ideology can be rejected in or after the process of
language learning. Section 3 initiates discussions on how to preserve
endangered languages and their associated sociocultural conventions
through language learning as a way of countering ‘hegemonial
invasion’. Section 4 represents a similar effort to counter linguistic
hegemony by providing more research results on less learned key
languages such as Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic and so on focusing on
their global contributions and significance which learners should be
keenly aware of. Section 5 explores the cutting-edge option of making
machines learn endangered languages with a view to preserving their
idiosyncratic linguistic features and cultural connotations. Building
a knowledgebase of endangered languages is a related research strand
to both keep these languages alive and facilitate learning and
teaching of them. Section 6 seeks to consolidate the efforts and
thoughts developed so far and envisaged in future regarding how to
incorporate some highly changeable global factors into language
learning to make this academic pursuit more responsive and responsible
that creates not only highly achieved language learners but also good
world citizens.

Please prepare an abstract of 200 words with a provisional chapter
title and email it to Dr Chris Shei (C-C.Shei at Swansea.ac.uk ). The
proposal should include the name, title and institution of author(s),
if any.

Deadline of receiving abstract in this round: 31 January 2023

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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