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Record Nr.

UNISA996445853303316

Autore

Borjian Maryam

Titolo

English in Post-Revolutionary Iran : From Indigenization to Internationalization / / Maryam Borjian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-84769-911-1

1-299-14082-3

1-84769-910-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

New Perspectives on Language and Education

Disciplina

420.955

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Iran

English language - Spoken English - Iran

Language policy - Iran

English language - Foreign countries

Iran Languages Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: English Fissions in Iran -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Educational Transfers: Process, Causes and Agents -- 2. The History of English in Iran (1836–1979) -- 3. The Revolutionary Period (1979–1988) -- 4. The Period of Reconstruction and Privatization (1989–1997) -- 5. The Period of Global Outlook (1997–2005) -- 6. Returning to Revolutionary Roots (2005–Present) -- 7. Forces From Above, Forces From Below -- Appendix -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book unravels the story of English, the language of 'the enemies', in post-revolutionary Iran. Drawing on diverse qualitative and quantitative fieldwork data, it examines the nation's English at the two levels of policy and practice to determine the politics, causes, and agents of the two diverging trends of indigenization/localization and internationalization/Anglo-Americanization within Iran's English education. Situating English in the nation's broader social, political, economic, and historical contexts, the volume explores the intersection



of the nation's English education with variables such as power, economy, policy, ideology, and information technology over the past three decades. The multidisciplinary insights of the book will be of value to scholars of global English, education policies and reforms and language policy as well as those who are specifically concerned with education in Iran.