Decolonizing English Language Textbooks

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Engaging in a South-North Inter-epistemic Dialogue

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvWaqar Ali Shah,Liaquat Ali Channa,Asadullah Lashari

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Bringing together diverse perspectives from authors situated in both the Global South and the Global North, this ground-breaking volume takes a critical, decolonial, and global southern approach to exploring colonial epistemologies and pedagogies surrounding textbook discourses and research. Using a South-North inter-epistemic dialogue, the book challenges conventional notions of undertaking research that includes local ways of knowing and Indigenous knowledge. By doing so, the book disrupts colonial ideologies, values, and culture, and instead suggests local Indigenous frameworks and methodologies for textbook research and epistemology. Contributors engage with various methodologies, such as ethnography, action research, textbook analysis, duo-ethnographies, and interview-based studies informed by various theoretical perspectives, including translanguaging, postmethod condition, critical visual literacy, gender decoloniality, critical discourse studies, multi-modality, raciolinguistics, decolonial awakening, Afro-centric epistemologies, decolonial interculturality, and pedagogy of becoming. The chapters also uncover how teacher educators, researchers, and textbook writers view, engage, and negotiate with these discourses. With chapters originating from across the globe (such as Nigeria, Algeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Colombia, Brazil, Denmark, Chile, Bangladesh, Morocco, and Greece), the book demonstrates rich geographical and epistemological diversity. Ultimately providing a wealth of insights for researchers working on decolonization in TESOL/ELT in general and on ELT textbooks and pedagogy in particular, this book will be of use to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the field of curriculum studies and teachers working in the field of language education.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal South Perspectives on TESOL
Antal sidor260
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041101260

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Waqar Ali Shah is Assistant Professor of English, Center of English Language & Linguistics, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Sindh, Pakistan. Liaquat Ali Channa is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English, Government College (GC) University Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. Asadullah Lashari is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Sindh Campus Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan.

ForewordTommaso M. Milani IntroductionWaqar Ali Shah, Liaquat Ali Channa, and Asadullah Lashari Section 1 Textbooks as (de)colonial artefacts: Disrupting discursive/semiotic and pedagogical landscapes in English language textbooks through Southern (re)imaginations1. English language textbooks: Thinking out of the boxes of colonialityKaren Risager2. Decolonizing EFL textbooks: Challenging the marginalization of Indigenous cultures in ChileLeonardo Veliz and Mauricio Véliz-Campos3. Interrogating colonial ideologies in elementary English textbooks in NigeriaYetunde S. Alabede and Vaughn W.M. Watson4. Image representation of women in the textbook "Way to English for Brazilian Learners": A critical analysis from the perspective of decoloniality of genderWagner Barros Teixeira, Doris Cristina Vicente da Silva Matos, and Alciclei da Graça Cruz 5. Untangling coloniality of knowledge and culture in TESOL textbooks in higher education: Implications for epistemic delinkingBenachour Saidi6. Disrupting the standard language ideologies and hegemony of method in Pakistani university ELT curricula: Reclaiming reparations through translingual competenceSarwat Anjum7. Foreign language textbooks and the multimodal representation of linguistic coloniality: A corpus-assisted discourse study from IndonesiaDanang Satria NugrahaSection 2 Textbook production, use, and critical interventions: Re-imagining textbook discourses through South-North dialogues8. Decolonizing language textbooks through a dialogue with conceptual artChristine Calfoglou9. Negotiating gender discourses in Algerian EFL textbooks through decolonial pedagogyOuacila Ait Eldjoudi10. Collaborative ELT materials design: An alternative to disrupt English textbook hegemonyJhon Eduardo Mosquera Pérez11. Decolonizing EFL textbooks in Colombia: A pedagogical intervention through contextualized materialsJhonatan Vásquez-Guarnizo and Mairon Felipe Tobar-Gómez12. Bridging the gap: Materials development for decolonizing English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Bangladeshi higher educationGolam Kader Zilany13. Unsettling entanglements of internal and external forms of colonialism in locally produced English textbooks: Decolonial trio-autoethnographic narrativesLiaquat Ali Channa, Asadullah Lashari, and Waqar Ali Shah Conclusion: On decolonial alternatives in English language textbooks and pedagogyWaqar Ali Shah, Liaquat Ali Channa, and Asadullah Lashari