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 ContributorsForewordKyria FinardiAcknowledgementsIntroductionExploring the decolonial challenge: Critical pedagogy and epistemological translation in applied linguistic research in Latin America.Claire Kramsch, Harold Castañeda-Peña & Paola GamboaPart IExploring coloniality in applied linguistic theory and practice1 The syntax of marginalization in Colombian Language policies: From colonialism to neoliberalism.Helena Guerrero Nieto2 On being critical: Language ideologies and the (de)stabilization of the colonial logic in a Brazilian education policyPaula Tatiana Carréra Szundy and Rogério Casanovas Tilio3 (Re)reading narratives and dancing in language education from (de)colonial perspectivesNara Hiroko TakakiPart IICritical pedagogies for pre- and in-service teachers4 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 Ortega5 Reflecting on a community service-learning project for English learners in Argentina from a decolonial perspective.Gabriela N. Tavella and S. Carina Fernández6 Non-normative corporeal-ity-ies in language educationHarold Castañeda-Peña and Diego Ubaque-CasallasPart IIIEpistemological translations from the Latin American diaspora7 A plurilingual MOOC to engage reflexivity, criticality and multimodality in educational practices. Questioning coloniality and cultural and linguistic mindsets.Paola Andrea Gamboa Diaz8 Onward to Pquyquy (or thinking with the heart) : Conceptualizing the decolonization of being for language teaching and researchYecid Ortega9 La Lucha Sigue! Decolonizing College Composition Classrooms in Latinx CaliforniaA.Lane IgoudinConclusionTowards a new framework for decolonizing practice: The multilingual mindset. Harold Castañeda-Peña, Paola Gamboa and Claire KramschIndex