Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching

AvMario E. López-Gopar

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book tells the story of a project in Mexico which aimed to decolonize primary English teaching by building on research that suggests Indigenous students are struggling in educational systems and are discriminated against by the mainstream. Led by their instructor, a group of student teachers aspired to challenge the apparent world phenomenon that associates English with “progress” and make English work in favor of Indigenous and othered children’s ways of being. The book uses stories as well as multimodality in the form of photos and videos to demonstrate how the English language can be used to open a dialogue with children about language ideologies. The approach helps to support minoritized and Indigenous languages and the development of respect for linguistic human rights worldwide.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:532 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
Antal sidor:233
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781783095766

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Mario E. López-Gopar is Professor at the Faculty of Languages of the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico. His main research interest is the intercultural and multilingual education of Indigenous peoples in Mexico.

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This is a remarkable book. In a precise, theoretically well-documented, yet engaging narrative, the reader is situated within contexts where the voices of the participants (trainee teachers, young students and researchers) provide fascinating insights into how they experienced being confronted with a critical vision of English and their own languages from the perspective of colonial difference.

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DedicationList of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter One: Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching (PELT)Chapter Two: Indigenous Peoples and English in Mexico Chapter Three: Los de la Banda (The Gang Members) Chapter Four: The Children Chapter Five: Language Practices and IdeologiesChapter Six: Praxicum and ChangeChapter Seven: Student Teachers and Children as Authors and Language SubjectsChapter Eight: Decolonizing PELT: Grounded PrinciplesReferences