Decolonizing Foreign Language Education : The Misteaching of English and Other Colonial Languages.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Credits -- 1 Rupturing the Yoke of Colonialism in Foreign Language Education: An Introduction -- 2 Between Globalization and Decolonization: Foreign Languages in the Cross-Fire -- 3 Time for a Paradigm Shift in U.S. Foreign Language Education?: Revisiting Rationales, Evidence, and Outcomes -- 4 SLA for the 21st Century: Disciplinary Progress, Transdisciplinary Relevance, and the Bi/multilingual Turn -- 5 Towards Decolonizing Heritage Language Teacher Education -- 6 Decolonizing Foreign, Second, Heritage, and First Languages: Implications for Education -- 7 From Translanguaging to Translingual Activism -- 8 A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging -- 9 English Language Learning in Globalized Third Spaces: From Monocultural Standardization to Hybridized Translanguaging -- 10 Mapping the Web of Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education -- 11 Decolonizing World Language Education: Toward Multilingualism -- Index.

This volume confronts the hold of colonialism and imperialism that inform and shape the relationship between foreign language education and literary studies by asserting that applied linguistics is just as important a tool for ESL/EFL teachers as literature or linguistic theory.

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