5. Against ethnocentrism and toward translanguaging in literacy and English education

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Contributors XI
5. Introduction. Bringing the ISMs into focus 1
6. 1. The -isms as interpretive prisms: A pedagogically useful concept 15
7. 2. Intersectionality from a critical realist perspective: A case study of Mexican teachers of English 34
8. 3. Elitism in language learning in the UK 50
9. 4. Native-speakerism and the betrayal of the native speaker language-teaching professional 74
10. 5. Against ethnocentrism and toward translanguaging in literacy and English education 98
11. 6. Cutting across the ideological split of capitalism/communism: Shcherba’s insights on foreign language education 122
12. 7. Methodism versus teacher agency in TESOL 144
13. 8. Academicism in language: “A Shelob’s web that devours and kills from inside” 165
14. 9. Scientism as a linchpin of oppressing isms in language education research 185
15. 10. Languaging and isms of reinforced boundaries across settings: Multidisciplinary ethnographical explorations 203
16. 11. Heterosexism: A pedagogy of homophobic oppression 230
17. 12. Occidental romanticism and English language education 249
18. Index 267
19. Addresses 270