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9780805845938

Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805845938

  • ISBN10:

    0805845933

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-11-30
  • Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

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Summary

Asserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. It focuses on the outcome of globalization in and among communities, and makes a case for the importance of local social practices, communicative conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform language policies.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword ix
Eli Hinkel
Preface xi
Introduction xiii
PART 1: REDEFINING DISCIPLINARY CONSTRUCTS
Reconstructing Local Knowledge, Reconfiguring Language Studies
3(22)
Suresh Canagarajah
Expert Discourses, Local Practices, and Hybridity: The Case of Indian Englishes
25(30)
Rakesh M. Bhatt
Language Death Studies and Local Knowledge: The Case of Cajun French
55(18)
Dominique Ryon
The Ecology of Writing Among the Kashinawa: Indigenous Multimodality in Brazil
73(26)
Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
PART 2: INTERROGATING LANGUAGE POLICIES
The Language Issue in Brazil: When Local Knowledge Clashes With Expert Knowledge
99(24)
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
Negotiating a Language Policy for Malaysia: Local Demand for Affirmative Action Versus Challenges From Globalization
123(24)
Maya Khemlani David
Subra Govindasamy
An Educational Policy for Negotiating Transnationalism: The Dominican Community in New York City
147(20)
Sharon Utakis
Marianne D. Pita
PART 3: REFRAMING PROFESSIONAL LIVES
Convergence and Resistance in the Construction of Personal and Professional Identities: Four French Modern Language Teachers in London
167(30)
David Block
International TESOL Professionals and Teaching English for Glocalized Communication (TEGCOM)
197(28)
Angel Lin
Wendy Wang
Nobuhiko Akamatsu
Mehdi Riazi
PART 4: IMAGINING CLASSROOM POSSIBILITIES
Talking Knowledge Into Being in an Upriver Primary School in Brunei
225(22)
Peter Martin
Voicing the ``Self'' Through an ``Other'' Language: Exploring Communicative Language Teaching for Global Communication
247(22)
Jasmine C. M. Luk
Local Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Languages and Literatures of the United States--Mexico Borderlands
269(18)
Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak
Nancy Sullivan
Author Index 287(8)
Subject Index 295

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