Chapter 2 Language weaponization, missed opportunities, and transformational spaces in Bangladeshi English departments: A biographical perspective
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Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi
Abstract
This chapter examines how Bangladeshi English departments promote Anglo-normative practices by weaponizing the English language, and how they could benefit from the shifting paradigms of English departments in England. I employ a biographical perspective to draw on my experience as an English major, English teacher, and critical applied linguist. I also provide a retrospective analysis of the linguistic, economic, and political factors that led me to enroll in an English department in Bangladesh and, later, England. Next, I discuss how my expectations and accomplishments as an English department student and teacher were met and denied. Throughout the chapter, I point out the ways in which teachers and students in Bangladesh are affected by the linguistic, cultural, and ideological dimensions of weaponization. I conclude this chapter by recommending changes to improve linguistic and cultural inclusivity in Bangladeshi English departments.
Abstract
This chapter examines how Bangladeshi English departments promote Anglo-normative practices by weaponizing the English language, and how they could benefit from the shifting paradigms of English departments in England. I employ a biographical perspective to draw on my experience as an English major, English teacher, and critical applied linguist. I also provide a retrospective analysis of the linguistic, economic, and political factors that led me to enroll in an English department in Bangladesh and, later, England. Next, I discuss how my expectations and accomplishments as an English department student and teacher were met and denied. Throughout the chapter, I point out the ways in which teachers and students in Bangladesh are affected by the linguistic, cultural, and ideological dimensions of weaponization. I conclude this chapter by recommending changes to improve linguistic and cultural inclusivity in Bangladeshi English departments.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- Chapter 1 An introduction to the weaponizing of language in the classroom and beyond 1
- Chapter 2 Language weaponization, missed opportunities, and transformational spaces in Bangladeshi English departments: A biographical perspective 13
- Chapter 3 Flipping the script: A collaborative autoethnography of agency and voices in the weaponization of bilingual education in Taiwan 35
- Chapter 4 The price we pay: An autobiographical dialogue of linguistic violence in the African diaspora 63
- Chapter 5 “That’s easy”: An analysis of speech acts in an instance of cross-cultural miscommunication 89
- Chapter 6 A critical look at ‘Pato’ y ‘Maricón’: Puerto Rican Gay teachers’ interventions with homophobic language 109
- Chapter 7 The weaponization of Setswana: Implications for marginalized languages in Botswana 127
- Chapter 8 Using your own language against you: Spanish in U.S. classrooms 147
- Chapter 9 Banned books in K-12 classrooms: Weaponization of children and young adolescent literature 169
- Chapter 10 French variations and language weaponization in US higher education 191
- Chapter 11 Dismantling weaponizing language in teacher preparation programs 213
- Afterword: Language weaponization and its harm 231
- Editors 237
- Contributors 239
- Index 243
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents VII
- Chapter 1 An introduction to the weaponizing of language in the classroom and beyond 1
- Chapter 2 Language weaponization, missed opportunities, and transformational spaces in Bangladeshi English departments: A biographical perspective 13
- Chapter 3 Flipping the script: A collaborative autoethnography of agency and voices in the weaponization of bilingual education in Taiwan 35
- Chapter 4 The price we pay: An autobiographical dialogue of linguistic violence in the African diaspora 63
- Chapter 5 “That’s easy”: An analysis of speech acts in an instance of cross-cultural miscommunication 89
- Chapter 6 A critical look at ‘Pato’ y ‘Maricón’: Puerto Rican Gay teachers’ interventions with homophobic language 109
- Chapter 7 The weaponization of Setswana: Implications for marginalized languages in Botswana 127
- Chapter 8 Using your own language against you: Spanish in U.S. classrooms 147
- Chapter 9 Banned books in K-12 classrooms: Weaponization of children and young adolescent literature 169
- Chapter 10 French variations and language weaponization in US higher education 191
- Chapter 11 Dismantling weaponizing language in teacher preparation programs 213
- Afterword: Language weaponization and its harm 231
- Editors 237
- Contributors 239
- Index 243
