Decolonizing Foreign Language Education

Donaldo Macedo is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at University of Massachusetts Boston. He is a leading authority in critical language studies and critical pedagogy and has published extensively in the areas of Creole languages, critical literacy, bilingualism, and multiculturalism. He is the founder and former chair of the Applied Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

• Dedication Foreword Chapter 1: Decolonizing Foreign Language Education: A Paradigm Shift to Translanguaging as an Imperial Rupture Chapter 2: Between Globalization and Decolonization: Foreign Languages in the Cross-Fire Chapter 3: Time for a paradigm shift in U.S. Foreign Language Education? Revisiting Rationales, Evidence and Outcomes Chapter 4: SLA for the 21st Century: Disciplinary Progress, Transdisciplinary Relevance, and the Bi/multilingual Turn Chapter 5: Towards Decolonizing Decolonizing Heritage Language Teacher Education Chapter 6: Decolonizing Foreign, Second, Heritage, and First Languages: Implications for Education Chapter 7: From Translaguaging to Translingual Activism Chapter 8: A Multilingual Perspective on Translaguaging Chapter 9: English Language Learning in Globalized Third Spaces: From Monocultural Standardization to Hybridized Translaguaging Chapter 10: Mapping the Web of Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education Chapter 11: Decolonizing World Language Education: Toward Multilingualism