37.1505, Books: Language as Power in the Language Teacher Education Ecosystem: Kamali (2026)

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Date: 20-Apr-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language as Power in the Language Teacher Education Ecosystem: Kamali (2026)


Title: Language as Power in the Language Teacher Education Ecosystem
Series Title: Elements in Language and Power
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-power-language-teacher-education-ecosystem?format=HB&isbn=9781009733816

Author(s): Jaber Kamali

Hardback ISBN:  9781009733816 Pages:  90 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009733816 Pages:  90 Price: Europe EURO 64.19
Hardback ISBN:  9781009733816 Pages:  90 Price: U.S. $ 70.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009733809 Pages:  90 Price: U.K. £ 18.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009733809 Pages:  90 Price: Europe EURO 21.01
Paperback ISBN:  9781009733809 Pages:  90 Price: U.S. $ 23.00

Abstract:

This Element aims to examine how language operates as power across the
ecosystem of language teacher education (LTE). It maps how
language-as-power (LaP) works at three layers: microsystem (teachers
and classrooms), mesosystem (institutions), and macrosystem
(socio-politics). Section 1 surveys LaP historically, tracing its
historical evolution from Plato to contemporary theorists and showing
how these ideas shape LTE. Building on this history, Sections 2–4
unpack LaP across ecological layers: microsystem, mesosystem, and
macrosystem. Section 5 looks forward, analyzing AI's redistribution of
power at each scale, and applying a 3Ps (possible, probable, and
preferable) futurology to chart potential pathways. Anchored in
experiences from the Global South, the Element argues that LaP in LTE
needs awareness and action. It offers ideas on how to address these
issues in LTE through solutions such as widening epistemic access,
contesting monolingual norms, and institutionalizing dialogic,
justice-oriented professionalism and trans-speakerism, to name a few.

Written In: English (eng)



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