Decolonizing Foreign Language Education: The Misteaching of English and Other Colonial Languages

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Decolonizing Foreign Language Education (PDF) questions current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white; western thought. Edited by applauded critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo; this volume includes leading-edge work by a select group of critical language scholars working to thoroughly challenge the marginalization of foreign language education and the displacement of non-standard and indigenous language varieties through the reification of colonial languages. Every chapter confronts the hold of colonialism and imperialism that notify and shape the relationship between foreign language education and literary studies by declaring that a detailed approach to applied linguistics is just as significant a tool for FL/ESL/EFL educators as linguistic or literature theory.

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