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Reclaiming the local in language policy and practice / edited by A. Suresh Canagarajah.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ESL and applied linguistics professional seriesPublication details: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 297 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0805845925
  • 9780805845921
  • 0805845933
  • 9780805845938
  • 9781410611840
  • 1410611841
  • 9781135623517
  • 1135623511
  • 9781135623463
  • 1135623465
  • 9781135623500
  • 1135623503
  • 1282322869
  • 9781282322868
  • 9786612322860
  • 6612322861
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reclaiming the local in language policy and practice.DDC classification:
  • 302.23 22
LOC classification:
  • P119.3 .R43 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 17.22
Online resources:
Contents:
Part PART 1: REDEFINING DISCIPLINARY CONSTRUCTS -- chapter 1 Reconstructing Local Knowledge, Reconfiguring Language Studies -- chapter 2 Expert Discourses, Local Practices, and Hybridity: The Case of Indian Englishes -- chapter 3 Language Death Studies and Local Knowledge: The Case of Cajun French -- chapter 4 The Ecology of Writing Among the Kashinawá: Indigenous Multimodality in Brazil -- part PART 2: INTERROGATING LANGUAGE POLICIES -- chapter 5 The Language Issue in Brazil: When Local Knowledge Clashes With Expert Knowledge -- chapter 6 Negotiating a Language Policy for Malaysia: Local Demand for Affirmative Action Versus Challenges From Globalization -- chapter 7 An Educational Policy for Negotiating Transnationalism: The Dominican Community in New York City -- part PART 3: REFRAMING PROFESSIONAL LIVES -- chapter 8 Convergence and Resistance in the Construction of Personal and Professional Identities: Four French Modern Language Teachers in London -- chapter 9 International TESOL Professionals and Teaching English for Glocalized Communication (TEGCOM) -- part PART 4: IMAGINING CLASSROOM POSSIBILITIES -- chapter 10 Talking Knowledge Into Being in an Upriver Primary School in Brunei -- chapter 11 Voicing the "Self' Through an "O ther" Language: -- chapter 12 Local Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Languages and Literatures of the United States--Mexico Borderlands.
Summary: This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among th.
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Part PART 1: REDEFINING DISCIPLINARY CONSTRUCTS -- chapter 1 Reconstructing Local Knowledge, Reconfiguring Language Studies -- chapter 2 Expert Discourses, Local Practices, and Hybridity: The Case of Indian Englishes -- chapter 3 Language Death Studies and Local Knowledge: The Case of Cajun French -- chapter 4 The Ecology of Writing Among the Kashinawá: Indigenous Multimodality in Brazil -- part PART 2: INTERROGATING LANGUAGE POLICIES -- chapter 5 The Language Issue in Brazil: When Local Knowledge Clashes With Expert Knowledge -- chapter 6 Negotiating a Language Policy for Malaysia: Local Demand for Affirmative Action Versus Challenges From Globalization -- chapter 7 An Educational Policy for Negotiating Transnationalism: The Dominican Community in New York City -- part PART 3: REFRAMING PROFESSIONAL LIVES -- chapter 8 Convergence and Resistance in the Construction of Personal and Professional Identities: Four French Modern Language Teachers in London -- chapter 9 International TESOL Professionals and Teaching English for Glocalized Communication (TEGCOM) -- part PART 4: IMAGINING CLASSROOM POSSIBILITIES -- chapter 10 Talking Knowledge Into Being in an Upriver Primary School in Brunei -- chapter 11 Voicing the "Self' Through an "O ther" Language: -- chapter 12 Local Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Languages and Literatures of the United States--Mexico Borderlands.

This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among th.

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