Decolonizing Applied Linguistics Research in Latin America

Harold Castañeda-Peña is Associate Professor in the Doctorado Interinstitucional en Educación at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Colombia. Paola Gamboa is Assistant Lecturer in the Department of French as a Foreign Language at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. Claire Kramsch is Emerita Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Education at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.

List of Contributors

Foreword

Kyria Finardi

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Exploring the decolonial challenge: Critical pedagogy and epistemological translation in applied linguistic research in Latin America.

Claire Kramsch, Harold Castañeda-Peña & Paola Gamboa

Part I

Exploring coloniality in applied linguistic theory and practice

1 The syntax of marginalization in Colombian Language policies: From colonialism to neoliberalism.

Helena Guerrero Nieto

2 On being critical: Language ideologies and the (de)stabilization of the colonial logic in a Brazilian education policy

Paula Tatiana Carréra Szundy and Rogério Casanovas Tilio

3 (Re)reading narratives and dancing in language education from (de)colonial perspectives

Nara Hiroko Takaki

Part II

Critical pedagogies for pre- and in-service teachers

4 A critical intercultural approach to decolonize foreign language teaching in Colombia: Explorations with teachers and Afro-Colombian and Indigenous learners in a public university.

Janeth María Ortiz Medina and Maure Carolina Aguirre Ortega

5 Reflecting on a community service-learning project for English learners in Argentina from a decolonial perspective.

Gabriela N. Tavella and S. Carina Fernández

6 Non-normative corporeal-ity-ies in language education

Harold Castañeda-Peña and Diego Ubaque-Casallas

Part III

Epistemological translations from the Latin American diaspora

7 A plurilingual MOOC to engage reflexivity, criticality and multimodality in educational practices. Questioning coloniality and cultural and linguistic mindsets.

Paola Andrea Gamboa Diaz

8 Onward to Pquyquy (or thinking with the heart) : Conceptualizing the decolonization of being for language teaching and research

Yecid Ortega

9 La Lucha Sigue! Decolonizing College Composition Classrooms in Latinx California

A.Lane Igoudin

Conclusion

Towards a new framework for decolonizing practice: The multilingual mindset. Harold Castañeda-Peña, Paola Gamboa and Claire Kramsch

Index