Published by Multilingual Matters 2005

Decolonisation, Globalisation

Language-in-Education Policy and Practice

Edited by: Angel Lin and Peter Martin

In the series New Perspectives on Language and Education

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About this book

This volume brings together scholars from around the world to juxtapose the voices of classroom participants alongside the voices of ruling elites with the aim of critically linking language policy issues with classroom practice in a range of contexts. The volume is suitable for postgraduate students, researchers and educators in a range of areas.

Author / Editor information

Lin Angel :

Angel Lin is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong. She teaches and researches in the areas of critical discourse analysis, urban and school ethnography, bilingual education, feminist cultural studies and postcolonial studies.

Martin Peter :

Peter Martin is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for English Language Teacher Education and Applied Linguistics in the School of Education at the University of Leicester. His research interests include bilingualism, bilingual education, language education, classroom discourse and language shift.

Reviews

Nkonko M Kamwangamalu:

Decolonization, Globalization is a must-read for anyone who is interested in issues in language-in-education policies and practices in post-colonial societies.

David Cooke, York University, in:

This book informs us richly about the difficulties and inequalities of education, language choice and life opportunities in complex language communities.

Zeena Zakharia, Teachers College, Columbia University:

The essays in this collection tie together cohesively and make an important contribution to research approaches in LIE and LPP. The critical construction paradigm put forth by Lin and Martin is appropriate, timely and inspiring for ethnographic researchers, educators, and scholars interested in language policy issues and practices in postcolonial and multilingual educational contexts. The diversity of the contributors and contributions is a testament to this volume’s editors, and to the impact that this work will have on future scholars.

Professor Li Wei, PhD, Head, School of Education Communication and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK:

The critical construction paradigm adopted by the authors is a very positive and exciting development in LIE-PP studies. I have every confidence that the volume will fulfill its promise to offer not only policy and practice critiques but also practical policy, pedagogy and curriculum alternatives.

Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, Vrije Universiteit Brussel:

An excellent provocative book. As ever, Multilingual Matters keeps up the good work.

Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania:

This is a wonderfully probing volume that takes nothing for granted about the role of English and English language teaching in postcolonial contexts across our globe. Based on their own close ethnographic knowledge, the authors offer critical analyses of contradictions and tensions in real cases of language education planning in these multilingual contexts, and the commentators and editors engage in serious dialogue with them about the cases and the tendencies they reveal. The overall effect is a rousing call -- and some guiding principles -- to construct language in education policy and pedagogy in ways that enable hitherto marginalised groups to grab hold of new possibilities and opportunities as they emerge under the forces of globalisation.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Author Biodata Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword: On the Possibilities of a Post-postcolonial Language Education Allan Luke Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
1. From a Critical Deconstruction Paradigm to a Critical Construction Paradigm: An Introduction to Decolonisation, Globalisation and Language-in-Education Policy and Practice Angel M. Y. Lin and Peter Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Nation-building in a Globalised World: Language Choice and Education in India E. Annamalai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
3. Critical, Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Language-in- Education Policy and Practice in Postcolonial Contexts: The Case of Hong Kong Angel M. Y. Lin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
4. Remaking Singapore for the New Age: Official Ideology and the Realities of Practice in Language-in-Education Rani Rubdy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
5. ‘Safe’ Language Practices in Two Rural Schools in Malaysia: Tensions between Policy and Practice Peter Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
6. The Four Language Stages in the History of Iran Abdolmehdi Riazi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
7. Higher Education Language Policy and the Challenge of Linguistic Imperialism: A Turkish Case Study Timothy Reagan and Sandra Schreffler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
8. Language Classroom Practices in Kenya Grace W. Bunyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
9. Language and the Struggle to Learn: The Intersection of Classroom Realities, Language Policy, and Neocolonial and Globalisation Discourses in South African Schools Margie Probyn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
10. Language-in-Education Policies and Practices in Africa with a Special Focus on Tanzania and South Africa – Insights from Research in Progress Birgit Brock-Utne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
11. Accommodating Tensions in Language-in-Education Policies: An Afterword A. Suresh Canagarajah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: English language teaching; classroom interaction; language policy; globalisation; decolonisation; language pedagogy; power

eBook

Published: July 4, 2005
ISBN: 9781853598265