Rivers, Damian J.

Isms in Language Education : Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (282 pages) - Language and Social Life [LSL] Series ; v.11 . - Language and Social Life [LSL] Series .

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction. Bringing the ISMs into focus -- 1. The -isms as interpretive prisms: A pedagogically useful concept -- 2. Intersectionality from a critical realist perspective: A case study of Mexican teachers of English -- 3. Elitism in language learning in the UK -- 4. Native-speakerism and the betrayal of the native speaker language-teaching professional -- 5. Against ethnocentrism and toward translanguaging in literacy and English education -- 6. Cutting across the ideological split of capitalism/communism: Shcherba's insights on foreign language education -- 7. Methodism versus teacher agency in TESOL -- 8. Academicism in language: "A Shelob's web that devours and kills from inside" -- 9. Scientism as a linchpin of oppressing isms in language education research -- 10. Languaging and isms of reinforced boundaries across settings: Multidisciplinary ethnographical explorations -- 11. Heterosexism: A pedagogy of homophobic oppression -- 12. Occidental romanticism and English language education -- Index -- Addresses.

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9781501503085


Second language acquisition-Social aspects.
Language and languages-Study and teaching-Foreign speakers.
Language and culture.


Electronic books.

P118.2 .I867 2017

418.0071