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Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice (Paperback, New)
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Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice (Paperback, New)
Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
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This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about
language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the
effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in
such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and
while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in
positions of power, relatively little has been said about the
impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly.
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in
focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among
the communities affected by these changes. The authors make a case
for why it is important for local social practices, communicative
conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to
actively inform language policies and practices for classrooms and
communities in specific contexts, and to critically inform those
pertaining to other communities. Engaging with the dominant
paradigms in the discipline of applied linguistics, the chapters
include research relating to second language acquisition,
sociolinguistics, literacy, and language planning. The majority of
chapters are case studies of specific contexts and communities,
focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their local
contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion of
their relevance for other, different communities and contexts.
Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of
reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating
with the present and the global. They illuminate the paradox that
the local contains complex values of diversity, multilingualism,
and plurality that can help to reconceive the multilingual society
and education for postmodern times.
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