Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching

Mario E. López-Gopar is Professor at the Faculty of Languages of the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico. His main research interest is the intercultural and multilingual education of Indigenous peoples in Mexico.

• DedicationList of TablesList of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter One: Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching (PELT)Chapter Two: Indigenous Peoples and English in Mexico             Chapter Three: Los de la Banda (The Gang Members)   Chapter Four: The Children       Chapter Five: Language Practices and IdeologiesChapter Six: Praxicum and ChangeChapter Seven: Student Teachers and Children as Authors and Language SubjectsChapter Eight: Decolonizing PELT: Grounded PrinciplesReferences

This is a remarkable book. In a precise, theoretically well-documented, yet engaging narrative, the reader is situated within contexts where the voices of the participants (trainee teachers, young students and researchers) provide fascinating insights into how they experienced being confronted with a critical vision of English and their own languages from the perspective of colonial difference.