Countering Colonialingualism in Language Education

Paul Meighan is a Gael sociolinguist and ESL professor at Sheridan College, Canada. He is the originator of the term “colonialingualism”.Leonardo Veliz is an Associate Professor in Language and Literacy in the School of Education at the University of New England, Australia. He is also an adjunct professor in the MTESOL program at Facultad de Educación, Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile.

• Global South resistance to colonialingualism: An introductionPaul Meighan and Leonardo VelizPART I Countering colonialingualism: Theoretical foundations, methodological shifts, and pedagogical reimaginings1 Charting actionable pedagogical directions for decolonizing the languages curriculumAdriana Diaz and Macarena Ortiz-Jimenez2 “Is that allowed?”: Raciolinguistic entanglements and transraciolinguistic transgressions in EL(T) spacesRashi Jain3 Toward a transepistemic academe: A critical autoethnography of lived coloniality in Pakistani ELT and academic specialization in (applied) linguisticsWaqar Ali Shah4 Dialogic autoethnography as a duet performance of countering colonialingualismUfuk Keleş and Bedrettin YazanPART II Countering colonialingualism: Indigenous knowledges, language revitalization, and educational reworlding5 Illuminating African epistemologies: Reclaiming literacy through Indigenous knowledge systems in higher educationLeketi Makalela and Gaokgakala Daniel Lemmenyane6 Tackling neo-colonialingualism: Revitalizing Australian Aboriginal languages in the classroomsSender Dovchin, Nakarra/Nagada Michelle Martin, and Rhonda Oliver7 Life stories of Indigenous peoples: Challenging coloniality and colonialingualismYesenia Bautista Ortiz, Mario Lopez-Gopar, Jamie L. Schissel, and Jose Julio Morales Chavez8 Countering colonialingualism and promoting Indigenous language revitalization in higher educationStephen May, Peter Keegan, and Mi Yung Park9 Decolonial struggles for Indigenous multilingual educationPrem Phyak and Tsewang ChuskitPART III Countering colonialingualism: Transformative practices, policy routes, and transnational community praxis10 Countering colonialingualism with intellectual sovereignty of the Global South: English language education and social justice and equity in BangladeshShaila Sultana11 Entanglements, Englishes, and transraciolinguistic becoming: Navigating colonialingualism across bordersPatriann Smith, Dianne Wellington, Yetunde S. Alabede, Andrew Hunte, and Taiwo Ogundapo12 Decolonizing bilingual education in Brazil for countering colonialingualismLuciana C. de Oliveira, Fernanda C. Liberali, Michele Salles El Kadri, and Antonieta Megale13 Moving beyond the coloniality of English: Building spaces of otherwiseMuzna Awayed-Bishara14 From marginalization to inclusion: Refugee learners’ struggles with English dominance and future aspirationsLeonardo Veliz, Paul Meighan, and Julian ChenToward a transformative framework for decolonizing language education: An afterwordPaul Meighan and Leonardo Veliz