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English as an International Language Education

Critical Intercultural Literacy Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Ahmed Sahlane

    1. English Language Institute, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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  2. Rosalind Pritchard

    1. Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, UK

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  • Explores the relationship of language, culture and ideology
  • Engages in interdisciplinary dialogue through critical discourse analysis
  • Provides directions and recommendations for future research

Part of the book series: English Language Education (ELED, volume 33)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. (De)Coloniality, Indigeneity and the Cultural Politics of English as an International Language: A Quest for the ‘Third Space’

    • Ahmed Sahlane, Rosalind Pritchard
    Pages 1-18

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-81
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    2. (En)Countering the ‘White’ Gaze: Native-Speakerist Rhetorics and the Raciolinguistics of Hegemony

      • Ahmed Sahlane
      Pages 83-104

    3. “I Wasn’t Good Enough Through Their Eyes”: White Dominance and Conceptions of the “Good Teacher” in Teacher Education in Canada

      • Lilach Marom
      Pages 105-122

    4. Sensitising Teachers to Prejudices in Representations of Indigenous Peoples in EFL Textbooks

      • Helen Margaret Murray
      Pages 123-139

    5. Building on and Sustaining Multilingual Children’s Cultural and Linguistic Assets in Superdiverse Early Childhood Education

      • Criss Jones Díaz
      Pages 141-158

    6. Challenging Invisibility in a Privileged Discourse Space: Culturally and Linguistically Inclusive University Teaching

      • Toni Dobinson
      Pages 159-176

    7. Teacher – Culture – Pluri: An International Initiative to Develop Open Educational Resources for Pluralistic Teaching in FL Teacher Education

      • María-Elena Gómez-Parra, Joanna Pfingsthorn
      Pages 177-198

    8. Teachers’ Perceptions of Cultural Otherness in Sri Lanka: Bridging the Gap in ELT Interculturality

      • Shashini Rochana Tennekoon
      Pages 199-217

    9. Pre-service Teachers’ Difficulty Understanding English as a Lingua Franca for Intercultural Awareness Development

      • Ayako Suzuki
      Pages 219-236

    10. Re-envisioning EIL-Informed TESOL Teacher-Education Curriculum

      • Roby Marlina
      Pages 237-255
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About this book

This volume provides an overview of current issues in English as an International Language (EIL) education and critical intercultural literacy pedagogy. The different chapters are inspired by ‘critical interculturality’ as a decolonial project that seeks to interrogate the structures, conditions, and mechanisms of colonial power relations that still pervade our increasingly globalising postcolonial societies; they tend to perpetuate forms of discrimination such as sexism, racism, classism, heterosexism and linguicism.

Divided into five sections, this collection critically examines English Language Teaching textbooks’ integration of intercultural dimensions, the promotion of intercultural literacy in teacher education programs, the management of cultural diversity in multicultural professional/business and educational situations, and the ‘decolonisation’ of the curriculum in various global educational and professional situations. The book presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means of examining the nature of intercultural communication pertaining in EIL varied international contexts. The chapters also reflect a wide diversity of perspectives from local contexts with global relevance and applicability.

This book is an indispensable reference for business leaders, international relations stakeholders, education and linguistics students, educationists, textbook designers, teacher trainers and researchers of language and culture, critical pedagogy, multiculturalism studies, TESOL and English as a lingua franca (ELF).


Editors and Affiliations

  • English Language Institute, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmed Sahlane

  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine, UK

    Rosalind Pritchard

About the editors

Ahmed Sahlane is a senior university lecturer in English, with extensive international teaching experience. He has published several articles and book chapters in mediated political argumentation, critical linguistics, the pragmatics and aesthetics of argumentation and rhetoric in mediated political discourse, with particular reference to the 2003 Iraq War. His research also includes critical pedagogy, intercultural literacy, multicultural education, and social justice. He is the receiver of Top Gun scholarship for Master teachers, CDIS, Burnaby, Canada (2001).

Rosalind Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Education and Senior Distinguished Research Fellow at Ulster University where she established a TESOL Master’s degree combining theory with an international teaching practice. She pursues research in higher education and TESOL (especially cross-cultural adaptation and pedagogic strategies). She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and theUK Academy of Social Sciences. She is an Honorary Fellow of the British Association for International and Comparative Education and Secretary of the European Association for Institutional Research.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: English as an International Language Education

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Intercultural Literacy Perspectives

  • Editors: Ahmed Sahlane, Rosalind Pritchard

  • Series Title: English Language Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34702-3

  • 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 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34701-6Published: 17 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34704-7Due: 20 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34702-3Published: 16 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2213-6967

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-6975

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 525

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literacy, Language Education, Education, general

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