Embracing Hybridity in Language Education

A Path Towards Shared Humanities
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-80041-928-5
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

At a time when DEI initiatives are being questioned or scaled back in some contexts, this book argues that language education has a vital role to play in fostering inclusion and mutual understanding across linguistic and cultural differences

Despite falling enrolments, the teaching of Languages other than English (LOTE) in higher education has huge potential value as an alternative way to promote diversity and inclusion, bypassing current culture wars.

This book offers new possibilities for LOTE education in the age of AI and global Englishes, revealing why its educational significance grows as its instrumental value declines. It synthesises diverse theoretical traditions into a coherent theory of hybridity, showing why hybridity is natural, inevitable and vital – and why embracing it in LOTE education can help overcome contemporary social divisiveness.

The author translates this theoretical discussion into practice through three interdependent learning goals: Discover, Translanguage and Collaborate & Reflect, supported by classroom activities, formative assessment, and the purposeful use of AI. The book offers an inspiring vision of the future of language education, and will be of interest to researchers, teacher educators and all those involved in university-level language education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sato, Eriko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. History of Language Teaching

Chapter 3. Socially Divisive Ideologies in Language Teaching

Chapter 4. Hybridity in Language and Culture

Chapter 5. Hybridity in Language Learners’ Collaborative Semiotic Environment

Chapter 6. Hybridity in Language Learner’s Repertoire

Chapter 7. Hybridity in Language Learners’ Evolving Subjectivity

Chapter 8. Framework: A Hybridity-Informed, Inclusion-Oriented LOTE Teaching

Chapter 9. Discover

Chapter 10. Translanguage

Chapter 11. Collaborate and Reflect

Chapter 12. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Sato, Eriko
Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and the Director of Language Learning Research Center (LLRC) at Stony Brook University in New York, USA. Her most recent book is Translanguaging in Translation:

Invisible Contributions that Shape Our Language and Society (Multilingual Matters, 2022).

Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University in New York, USA. Her most recent book is Translanguaging in
Translation: Invisible Contributions that Shape Our Language and Society (Multilingual Matters, 2022).