Examining Racialized Practices in ELT: Enhancing Critical New Horizons

This chapter explores the field of race as one of those discourses and complexities that construct the task of language teaching. Although race as related to skin color is relevant, this chapter goes beyond this aspect or ethnical superficial descriptions (Ng’Weno, B., The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 12:414–440, 2007) of English language teaching. It actually problematizes those visions involved in discourses that make us believe that ethnicity, nationality, regions, and other categories are embodied in essential identities which are immutable despite the contexts and historical moments (Telles, E. & Flores, R., Hispanic American Historical Review 93:411–449, 2013; Knowles, C., & Alexander, C., Making race matter: bodies, space and identity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). For illustrating this, the chapter tackles the process and results of a research project that was carried out at a language institute and explains how there is a racializing process at all levels of language teaching and learning.

Datos
Titulo: 
Examining Racialized Practices in ELT: Enhancing Critical New Horizons
Autor(es): 
Sandra Ximena Bonilla Medina
Titulo del Libro: 
Unauthorized Outlooks on Second Languages Education and Policies
Pais: 
Suiza
Editorial: 
Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 
978-3-031-45051-8
Paginas: 
209-228
Año: 
2023