Decolonizing Applied Linguistics Research in Latin America

List of Contributors

Foreword

Kyria Finardi

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Exploring the decolonial challenge: Critical pedagogy and epistemological translation in applied linguistic research in Latin America.

Claire Kramsch, Harold Castaneda-Pena & Paola Gamboa

Part I

Exploring coloniality in applied linguistic theory and practice

1 The syntax of marginalization in Colombian Language policies: From colonialism to neoliberalism.

Helena Guerrero Nieto

2 On being critical: Language ideologies and the (de)stabilization of the colonial logic in a Brazilian education policy

Paula Tatiana Carrera Szundy and Rogerio Casanovas Tilio

3 (Re)reading narratives and dancing in language education from (de)colonial perspectives

Nara Hiroko Takaki

Part II

Critical pedagogies for pre- and in-service teachers

4 A critical intercultural approach to decolonize foreign language teaching in Colombia: Explorations with teachers and Afro-Colombian and Indigenous learners in a public university.

Janeth Maria Ortiz Medina and Maure Carolina Aguirre Ortega

5 Reflecting on a community service-learning project for English learners in Argentina from a decolonial perspective.

Gabriela N. Tavella and S. Carina Fernandez

6 Non-normative corporeal-ity-ies in language education

Harold Castaneda-Pena and Diego Ubaque-Casallas

Part III

Epistemological translations from the Latin American diaspora

7 A plurilingual MOOC to engage reflexivity, criticality and multimodality in educational practices. Questioning coloniality and cultural and linguistic mindsets.

Paola Andrea Gamboa Diaz

8 Onward to Pquyquy (or thinking with the heart) : Conceptualizing the decolonization of being for language teaching and research

Yecid Ortega

9 La Lucha Sigue! Decolonizing College Composition Classrooms in Latinx California

A.Lane Igoudin

Conclusion

Towards a new framework for decolonizing practice: The multilingual mindset. Harold Castaneda-Pena, Paola Gamboa and Claire Kramsch

Index