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• WP359 Madrasa ideologies of English: Questioning ELT aid and the post-9/11 deployment of English to de-Islamize madrasas

  Chowdhury

  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

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• WP68 Beyond 'safe-talk': Institutionalization and agency in China's English language education

  Pérez-Milans

  2011

  This paper will discuss some of the pitfalls of the notion of ?safe-talk? (Chick 1996), a fruitful analytical concept that has been widely used in classroom discourse studies to link chorus-like repetition sequences with certain institutional and …

  Key words: Chinese education, classroom interaction, English language education, institutionalization, modernization, safe-talk, social agency, sociolinguistic ethnography

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