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WP353 Linguistic citizenship in Africa
2026
Many thinkers on the cusp of African independences, wrestling with the question of how to ensure participatory and agentive fellowships for new, postcolonial beginnings, found themselves engaging with language. Franz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and …
Key words: agency, decoloniality, inequity, Linguistic Citizenship, voice
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
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
WP308 ESOL and Linguistic Citizenship: Practical actions amid policy neglect
2023
This paper describes national policy for teaching English to adult migrants in England, and asks what ESOL teaching can do to overcome the fragmentation and hostility it finds, opening up to multilingualism instead. After a historical sketch of …
Key words: adult education, ESOL, language policy, Linguistic Citizenship