Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in ELT and TESOL

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlights the importance of postcolonial narratives in Global Southern epistemologies in ELT and TESOL.

Autorentext

Hamza R'boul is a Research Assistant Professor, Department of International Education, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Inhalt

1. What Prompted This Research: Rationales and Objectives 2. The Lack of Epistemic Diversity in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Most Prominent Peer-Reviewed Journals 3. Colonial Structures and the Skewed Geopolitics of Knowledge in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics 4. The Interlacement of the Geopolitics of Knowledge and Language 5. South-North Inter-Epistemic Dialogue in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics: Cognitive and Epistemic Dissonance? 6. South-South Inter-Epistemic Dialogue: Southern ELTs, TESOLs and Applied Linguistics(s) 7. Postcolonial Discourses in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics Knowledge 8. ****Decolonial Knowledges in ELT, TESOL and Applied Linguistics Theory and Practice