Contents: E. Hinkel, Series Editor Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Redefining Disciplinary Constructs.S. Canagarajah, Reconstructing Local Knowledge, Reconfiguring Language Studies. R.M. Bhatt, Expert Discourses, Local Practices, and Hybridity: The Case of Indian Englishes. D. Ryon, Language Death Studies and Local Knowledge: The Case of Cajun French. L.M.T. Menezes de Souza, The Ecology of Writing Among the Kashinawá: Indigenous Multimodality in Brazil. Part II: Interrogating Language Policies.K. Rajagopalan, The Language Issue in Brazil: When Local Knowledge Clashes With Expert Knowledge. M.K. David, S. Govindasamy, Negotiating a Language Policy for Malaysia: Local Demand for Affirmative Action Versus Challenges From Globalization. S. Utakis, M.D. Pita, An Educational Policy for Negotiating Transnationalism: The Dominican Community in New York City. Part III: Reframing Professional Lives.D. Block, Convergence and Resistance in the Construction of Personal and Professional Identities: Four French Modern Language Teachers in London. A. Lin, W. Wang, N. Akamatsu, M. Riazi, International TESOL Professionals and Teaching English for Globalized Communication (TEGCOM) Part IV: Imagining Classroom Possibilities.P. Martin, Talking Knowledge Into Being in an Upriver Primary School in Brunei. J.C.M. Luk, Voicing the "Self" Through an "Other" Language: Exploring Communicative Language Teaching for Global Communication. E. Mermann-Jozwiak, N. Sullivan, Local Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Languages and Literatures of the United States-Mexico Borderlands.
A. Suresh Canagarajah
"While many of the ideas in this volume may not be new...the
contributions offer new insight into these discussions and
reemphasize the need for a paradigm shift within AL. The volume as
a whole...paves the way for new platforms of research which will
continue to take account of socially, culturally, historically, and
intuitionally situated perspectives."
—Linguist List"...this book identifies the urgent local concerns
caused by the increasing linguistic and social homogeneity in the
representation of literacy and expertise, and also brings to the
foreground the rising issues of power inequality."
—TESL-EJ"This book is a well-written compilation of some current
studies examining the reclamation of the local in a globalized
world. The theoretical reconstruction of dominant sociolinguistic
paradigms is one of its strengths....this volume is a valuable
resource."
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition"This book represents an
important movement toward acknowledging the importance of
indigenous perspectives in the social sciences....One of its
greatest contributions would be to help persuade applied linguists
that issues of globalization and local knowledge should be central
to their field."
—James W. Tollefson
International Christian University, Japan"Reclaiming the Local in
Language Policy and Practice is not only a significant contribution
to the literature in the field, but will bring about a radical
rethinking of much of the current work on language planning and
language policy theory and practice around the world....It is an
outstanding contribution....Its emphasis on the need to deal with
both the global and local contexts is both timely and
essential."
—Timothy Reagan
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
"While many of the ideas in this volume may not be new...the
contributions offer new insight into these discussions and
reemphasize the need for a paradigm shift within AL. The volume as
a whole...paves the way for new platforms of research which will
continue to take account of socially, culturally, historically, and
intuitionally situated perspectives."
—Linguist List"...this book identifies the urgent local concerns
caused by the increasing linguistic and social homogeneity in the
representation of literacy and expertise, and also brings to the
foreground the rising issues of power inequality."
—TESL-EJ"…the book contains many fine articles addressing a variety
of critical, postcolonial and poststructural aspects of local
language practices, and is a valuable resource for scholars in
applied linguistics and related fields." –Journal of Language,
Identity, and Education; 7: 161-168, 2008
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