Decolonizing English Language Teaching Practices and Policies by Tonelli, Juliana Reichert Assunção; Calderon-Berumen, Freyca;

Short description:

This book brings together teachers and scholars from the Global South to showcase original frameworks and perspectives on decolonizing English language teaching.

Long description:

This book brings together teachers and scholars from the Global South to showcase original frameworks and perspectives on decolonizing English language teaching.

The contributors introduce local praxiologies, understood as the knowledges that emerge through critical reflection from teachers' everyday practices. In this sense, praxiologies can also be taken as informed teaching actions, conceived within decolonial frameworks and embedded in practice. The book addresses issues related to the multiple epistemological stances teachers use to open space within formal educational settings to practice global Englishes, contesting traditional standardized instruction. The first three sections are organized by educational level (primary/basic, secondary, and higher education), with each chapter providing examples of pedagogical practices or methodologies, epistemological frameworks, or diverse approaches to policies regarding English language teaching. The final section interrogates the foundational role of language policy in sustaining or dismantling colonial power structures within education systems. Through these chapters, the authors argue that decolonizing language policies extends beyond a theoretical exercise into a material necessity for transforming educational practice.

Essential reading for scholars and students interested in decolonial teaching practices, Global South epistemologies, English language teaching, critical language pedagogies, and language policy studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction – Juliana Tonelli and Freyca Calderon Section I: Early Childhood and Primary Education (Early years to approx. 14 years old),  Chapter 1: Decolonial Transdisciplinary Movements in Language Education in a Brazilian Public-School Context - Maria José Hoelzle and Rosane Rocha Pessoa Chapter 2: Decolonizing the English Language Curriculum for and with children: a borderless ontological proposal - Juliana Tonelli and Jaqueline Toneli  Chapter 3: Translingualand Program: Opportunities of the Implementation of Translanguaging as an Alternative Pedagogy in Two Public Schools from Pereira, Colombia - Angélica Arcila Ramírez, Dany Andrés Hoyos Serna, and Sandro Alfonso Echeverry Palacio Chapter 4. Bridging the Gap: Local Appropriations of CLIL for Transformative Bilingual Education in a Public School in Barranquilla - Yeisy Molina-Siado and Nayibe Rosado-Mendinueta Section II: Secondary Education (approx. 15 to 19 years old) Chapter 5: The process of teaching and learning of English in the presence of the national bilingual plan in Colombia - Elcy Lucia Cañas Areiza and Iris Rubi Monroy-Velasco Chapter 6: Translanguaging and Critical Literacy as Pedagogies for Decolonial Co-Learning in Plurilingual Secondary Schooling Spaces – Kevin Donley Chapter 7: Between Policy and Practice: Challenging Colonial Assessment in High School Mexican and Brazilian Classrooms - Elsa Fernanda González and Gladys Quevedo-Camargo Section III: Higher Education (Post-Secondary) Chapter 8: Critical American Language Praxis in the US higher education – Magdalena Madany-Saa and Jason Litzenberg Chapter 9: Linguistic Policies in Higher Education: Between Global Standardization and Plurilingual Justice – Alina Martinez Hernández, Gabriela Jacqueline Galeas Arboleda and Jardel Coutinho dos Santos Chapter 10: Decolonizing Language Settlement Programs – Wanda Shell Chapter 11: Reflecting on Plurilingualism and Plurilingual Practices: English Language Education in the Interiors of Indonesian Archipelago - Dinny Risri Aletheiani Chapter 12: Teaching in the Tension of Coloniality: Critical reflexivity and Decolonizing Becoming in Teacher Education - Freyca Calderon Section IV: Decolonizing Language Policies Chapter 13: Can Translanguaging Help Decolonize Language Education? Interrogating the Role of Language Policy Reform - Nirda G. Derose, Karina Oliveira de Paula, Michelle Angelo-Rocha, and Robert Gonzaga Mukasa Chapter 14: Challenging Linguistic Racism and Classism: Paving the Way for Decolonial Language Policies in Colombia – Maure Carolina Aguirre Ortega Chapter 15: Social justice and interculturality in language teacher education: The case of a university context in Oaxaca - Jorge Valtierra-Zamudio, Vilma Huerta Cordova, and Mario E. López-Gopar Chapter 16: Policy Barriers and Bridges to Decolonial Praxis in Ecuadorian Intercultural Bilingual Education – Kevin Donley Chapter 17: A Transformative Proposal in Deaf Language Education: Translanguaging, Decoloniality and Social Justice in Dialogue – Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha and Jéssica Vasconcelos Dorta Afterword - Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta