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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826097703321

Titolo

Isms in language education  / / edited by Damian J. Rivers, Karin Zotzmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5015-0296-4

1-5015-0308-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Language and Social Life, , 2364-4303 ; ; Volume 11

Disciplina

418.0071

Soggetti

Second language acquisition - Social aspects

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Language and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction. Bringing the ISMs into focus -- 1. The -isms as interpretive prisms: A pedagogically useful concept -- 2. Intersectionality from a critical realist perspective: A case study of Mexican teachers of English -- 3. Elitism in language learning in the UK -- 4. Native-speakerism and the betrayal of the native speaker language-teaching professional -- 5. Against ethnocentrism and toward translanguaging in literacy and English education -- 6. Cutting across the ideological split of capitalism/communism: Shcherba’s insights on foreign language education -- 7. Methodism versus teacher agency in TESOL -- 8. Academicism in language: “A Shelob’s web that devours and kills from inside” -- 9. Scientism as a linchpin of oppressing isms in language education research -- 10. Languaging and isms of reinforced boundaries across settings: Multidisciplinary ethnographical explorations -- 11. Heterosexism: A pedagogy of homophobic oppression -- 12. Occidental romanticism and English language education -- Index -- Addresses



Sommario/riassunto

This volume develops a comprehensive understanding of the manner in which dominant/emergent ideologies, discourses and social structures impact language education. The 17 chapters analyze the complex social dynamics of "isms" within language education and detail how such dynamics influence language education pedagogies and practices, institutional policies, intergroup subjectivities in addition to language proficiency achievements.