Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global
South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and
challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global
South. Global South perspectives are encapsulated in struggles for
basic, economic, political and social transformation in an inequitable
world, and are not confined to the geographical South. Taking a critical
perspective on Southern theories, demonstrating why it is important to
view the world from Southern perspectives and why such positions must be
open to critical investigation, this book:
- charts the impacts of these theories on approaches to multilingualism,
language learning, language in education, literacy and diversity,
language rights and language policy;
- provides broad historical and geographical understandings of the
movement towards a Southern perspective and draws on Indigenous and
Southern ways of thinking that challenge mainstream viewpoints;
- seeks to develop alternative understandings of applied linguistics,
expand the intellectual repertoires of the discipline, and challenge
the complicities between applied linguistics, colonialism, and
capitalism.
Written by two renowned scholars in the field, Innovations and
Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South is key reading
for advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics,
multilingualism, language and education, language policy and planning,
and language and identity.
