Table of Contents

Contents: E. Hinkel, Series Editor Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Part I: Redefining Disciplinary Constructs.S. Canagarajah, Reconstructing Local Knowledge, Reconfiguring Language Studies. R.M. Bhatt, Expert Discourses, Local Practices, and Hybridity: The Case of Indian Englishes. D. Ryon, Language Death Studies and Local Knowledge: The Case of Cajun French. L.M.T. Menezes de Souza, The Ecology of Writing Among the Kashinawá: Indigenous Multimodality in Brazil. Part II: Interrogating Language Policies.K. Rajagopalan, The Language Issue in Brazil: When Local Knowledge Clashes With Expert Knowledge. M.K. David, S. Govindasamy, Negotiating a Language Policy for Malaysia: Local Demand for Affirmative Action Versus Challenges From Globalization. S. Utakis, M.D. Pita, An Educational Policy for Negotiating Transnationalism: The Dominican Community in New York City. Part III: Reframing Professional Lives.D. Block, Convergence and Resistance in the Construction of Personal and Professional Identities: Four French Modern Language Teachers in London. A. Lin, W. Wang, N. Akamatsu, M. Riazi, International TESOL Professionals and Teaching English for Globalized Communication (TEGCOM) Part IV: Imagining Classroom Possibilities.P. Martin, Talking Knowledge Into Being in an Upriver Primary School in Brunei. J.C.M. Luk, Voicing the "Self" Through an "Other" Language: Exploring Communicative Language Teaching for Global Communication. E. Mermann-Jozwiak, N. Sullivan, Local Knowledge and Global Citizenship: Languages and Literatures of the United States-Mexico Borderlands.

About the Author

A. Suresh Canagarajah

Reviews

"While many of the ideas in this volume may not be new...the contributions offer new insight into these discussions and reemphasize the need for a paradigm shift within AL. The volume as a whole...paves the way for new platforms of research which will continue to take account of socially, culturally, historically, and intuitionally situated perspectives."
—Linguist List"...this book identifies the urgent local concerns caused by the increasing linguistic and social homogeneity in the representation of literacy and expertise, and also brings to the foreground the rising issues of power inequality."
—TESL-EJ"This book is a well-written compilation of some current studies examining the reclamation of the local in a globalized world. The theoretical reconstruction of dominant sociolinguistic paradigms is one of its strengths....this volume is a valuable resource."
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition"This book represents an important movement toward acknowledging the importance of indigenous perspectives in the social sciences....One of its greatest contributions would be to help persuade applied linguists that issues of globalization and local knowledge should be central to their field."
—James W. Tollefson
International Christian University, Japan"Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is not only a significant contribution to the literature in the field, but will bring about a radical rethinking of much of the current work on language planning and language policy theory and practice around the world....It is an outstanding contribution....Its emphasis on the need to deal with both the global and local contexts is both timely and essential."
—Timothy Reagan
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

"While many of the ideas in this volume may not be new...the contributions offer new insight into these discussions and reemphasize the need for a paradigm shift within AL. The volume as a whole...paves the way for new platforms of research which will continue to take account of socially, culturally, historically, and intuitionally situated perspectives."
—Linguist List"...this book identifies the urgent local concerns caused by the increasing linguistic and social homogeneity in the representation of literacy and expertise, and also brings to the foreground the rising issues of power inequality."
—TESL-EJ"…the book contains many fine articles addressing a variety of critical, postcolonial and poststructural aspects of local language practices, and is a valuable resource for scholars in applied linguistics and related fields." –Journal of Language, Identity, and Education; 7: 161-168, 2008