Innovations And Challenges In Applied Linguistics From The Global South Av Alastair (university Of Technology Sydney Australia) Pennycook, Sinfree (pe

<I><P>Innovations and Challenges in </I><EM>Applied Linguistics from the Global South</EM> provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South. Global South perspectives are encapsulated in struggles for basic, economic, political and social transformation in an inequitable world, and are not confined to the geographical South. Taking a critical perspective on Southern theories, demonstrating why it is important to view the world from Southern perspectives and why such positions must be open to critical investigation, this book:</P><P></P><UL><P><LI>charts the impacts of these theories on approaches to multilingualism, language learning, language in education, literacy and diversity, language rights and language policy;</LI><P></P><P><LI>provides broad historical and geographical understandings of the movement towards a Southern perspective and draws on Indigenous and Southern ways of thinking that chal

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