Overview
- Contains studies from several countries across the global south
- Covers specific instances of neoliberalism in English language education policy
- Provides multiple approaches to data collections
Part of the book series: Language Policy (LAPO, volume 29)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Neoliberalism and English Language Teaching Policies
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Neoliberalism Ideology as in English Language Teaching Materials
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Experiences of Neoliberal Subjects
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Neoliberalism in English Language Materials
- Global English Language Education Policy
- Commodification of English Language
- Neoliberalism and Linguistic Imperialism in Global South
- Market and English language education
- Human capital development
- Social class and English
- Identity and English Language
- Neoliberalism and English as the medium of instruction
About this book
This book investigates different ways in which neoliberal language and teaching policies have influenced the English language in global south countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Through the three main sub themes covered by the book, namely Neoliberalism and English Language Teaching Policies, Neoliberalism Ideology as in English Language Teaching Materials, and Experiences of Neoliberal Subjects, it investigates various aspects and means through which neoliberalism is realized in a variety of contexts.
Through the first subtheme the volume covers the English language education policies of Chile, Bangladesh, India, and Morocco. The second sub theme concerns how different neoliberal values such as consumerism, entrepreneurship, and individualism are localized and constructed in the locally developed English language materials of Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The third sub theme includes studies on the impact of neoliberalization of English in relation to Colombian, Brazilian, and Pakistani stakeholders. This book is a valuable resource for academics, postgraduate students, researchers, policy makers, educators, and practitioners who are interested in neoliberalism in English language.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ali Jalalian Daghigh (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (UM). Prior to joining UM, he was a postdoctoral fellow in English Language Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interests lie within (Critical) Discourse Studies, Education as well as Translation Studies. He currently leads an international project on neoliberalization of English language teaching in the global south.
Jariah Mohd Jan is a Professor of Sociolinguistics at the Department of English Language, and was the former Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya (UM). Her main areas of research are Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, women and leadership, and discourse at the workplace. She currently leads the IIRG project on documenting the language and culture of the Kerinchi community in Kuala Lumpur. In 2014, she was awarded with the UM Excellence Award for the category of Excellent Lecturer.
Sheena Kaur is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia (UM). She is currently the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the faculty. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and internationalization of higher education.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South
Editors: Ali Jalalian Daghigh, Jariah Mohd Jan, Sheena Kaur
Series Title: Language Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92353-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92352-5Published: 29 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92355-6Published: 30 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92353-2Published: 25 March 2022
Series ISSN: 1571-5361
Series E-ISSN: 2452-1027
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Language Policy and Planning, Sociology of Education, Applied Linguistics