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WP359 Madrasa ideologies of English: Questioning ELT aid and the post-9/11 deployment of English to de-Islamize madrasas
2026
External donors growingly promote English as a notionally value-neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to …
Key words: decolonisation, English language education, Language ideologies, madrasas
WP 324 Linguistic Citizenship as decolonial pedagogy: How minoritized language speakers contest epistemic injustices in EFL education
2024
In this plenary, I revisit the notion of EFL as a cultural discourse that I developed in previous work by engaging with it from a Southern locus of enunciation. Mindful of how EFL pedagogies can still reproduce hegemonic and exclusionary ideologies, …
Key words: decolonisation, EFL, Linguistic Citizenship, Palestinian Arabic speakers
WP318 Working papers for a more open academy
2023
What contribution can working papers (WPs) make to a more open academy, and where do they stand in current debates about Open Science? They used to provide speedier publication and feedback as well as cost-free/low-cost access, but with the …
Key words: academic publishing, applied linguistics, decolonisation, higher education, Open access
WP317 Linguistic Citizenship
2023
This paper explores the notion of Linguistic Citizenship, a term coined by Chris Stroud at the turn of the millennium in Southern Africa to draw attention to ‘grassroots’ engagements with language (specifically multilingualism) as a dynamic of …
Key words: decolonisation, education, language ideology, Linguistic Citizenship, multilingualism
WP307 Decolonising language in the city: Multilingual repertoires, institutional practice and civic engagement in a UK urban setting
2023
In this paper I examine how multilingual spaces emerge within institutions across a number of sectors in the city. Drawing on their repertoires of linguistic resources actors (institutional agents and clients) assume agency to change practice and …
Key words: civic engagement, decolonisation, higher education, language policy, multilingualism
WP259 Decolonising linguistics: A southern African textbook project
2019
This paper uses a decolonial lens to explore the development of a southern African Linguistics textbook. Working with Santos's sociology of emergences, it argues that the project created a participatory space which enabled emerging academics to …
Key words: decolonisation, textbooks