Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice

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ISBN: 9780805845938 | 0805845933
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Copyright: 11/30/2004

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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.

Series Editor Foreword

Eli Hinkel

Preface

Introduction

xiii

PART 1: REDEFINING DISCIPLINARY CONSTRUCTS

Reconstructing Local Knowledge, Reconfiguring Language Studies

(22)

Suresh Canagarajah

Expert Discourses, Local Practices, and Hybridity: The Case of Indian Englishes

(30)

Rakesh M. Bhatt

Language Death Studies and Local Knowledge: The Case of Cajun French

(18)

Dominique Ryon

The Ecology of Writing Among the Kashinawa: Indigenous Multimodality in Brazil

(26)

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza

PART 2: INTERROGATING LANGUAGE POLICIES

The Language Issue in Brazil: When Local Knowledge Clashes With Expert Knowledge

(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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