1st Edition
Decolonizing Applied Linguistics Research in Latin America Moving to a Multilingual Mindset
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Kyria Finardi
Introduction
Exploring the decolonial challenge: Critical pedagogy and epistemological translation in applied linguistic research in Latin America
Claire Kramsch, Harold Castañeda-Peña & 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
Carmen Helena Guerrero-Nieto
2 On being critical: Language ideologies and the (de)stabilization of the colonial logic in a Brazilian education policy
Paula Tatiana Carréra Szundy and Rogério 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 María Ortiz Medina and Maure 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 Fernández
6 Non-normative corporeal-ity-ies in language education
Harold Castañeda-Peña 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 Gamboa
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 Castañeda-Peña, Paola Gamboa and Claire Kramsch
Index
Biography
Harold Castañeda-Peña is Associate Professor in the Doctorado Interinstitucional en Educación at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia.
Paola Gamboa is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of French as a Foreign Language at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France.
Claire Kramsch is Emerita Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Education at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
