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Author Pennycook, Alastair, 1957- author.

Title Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the global South / Alastair Pennycook and Sinfree Makoni
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 164 pages)
Series Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics Ser
Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics Ser
Contents Introduction. Gazing from the South -- The making of the South in applied linguistics -- Southern multilingualisms -- Language endangerment, vitality and reclamation -- Decolonizing language in education -- Challenging the Northern research gaze -- Applied linguistics from a Southern perspective
Summary Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South. Global South perspectives are encapsulated in struggles for basic, economic, political and social transformation in an inequitable world, and are not confined to the geographical South. Taking a critical perspective on Southern theories, demonstrating why it is important to view the world from Southern perspectives and why such positions must be open to critical investigation, this book: charts the impacts of these theories on approaches to multilingualism, language learning, language in education, literacy and diversity, language rights and language policy; provides broad historical and geographical understandings of the movement towards a Southern perspective and draws on Indigenous and Southern ways of thinking that challenge mainstream viewpoints; seeks to develop alternative understandings of applied linguistics, expand the intellectual repertoires of the discipline, and challenge the complicities between applied linguistics, colonialism, and capitalism. Written by two renowned scholars in the field, Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South is key reading for advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics, multilingualism, language and education, language policy and planning, and language and identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Alastair Pennycook is Distinguished Professor of Language, Society and Education at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Adjunct Professor at MultiLing, Oslo, Norway. Sinfree Makoni is Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and African Studies at Penn State University, USA and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the North West, South Africa
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Subject Applied linguistics.
Applied linguistics -- Southern Hemisphere
applied linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics.
Applied linguistics.
Southern Hemisphere.
Form Electronic book
Author Makoni, Sinfree, author.
ISBN 9780429951770
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9780429489396
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9780429951763
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