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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rivers, Damian J., editor.

Zotzmann, Karin, editor.

Series:

Language and social life (Mouton de Gruyter) ; Volume 11.

Language and Social Life, 2364-4303 ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second language acquisition--Social aspects.

Second language acquisition.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501502965

1501502964

9781501503085

1501503081

OCLC:

1009176397