This book explores how resurgent nationalism across the globe demands re-examination of many of the theories and practices in applied linguistics and language teaching as political forces seek to limit the movement of people, goods, and services across national borders and, in some cases, enact violence upon those with linguistic and/or ethnic backgrounds that differ from that of the dominant culture. The authors who have contributed to this volume provide careful analysis of nationalist discourses and actions in Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Vietnam. They offer their unique historical and cultural perspectives on the complex relationship between language, identity, and nationhood in each of these countries, as well as practical responses to the fraught political situations that many language educators and policy makers now face.This book will appeal to researchers in applied linguistics and language teaching, as well as second and foreign language teaching professionals working and living in countries where nationalist sentiments are on the rise.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking Applied Linguistics and Language
Teaching in the Neo-Nationalist Era.- Chapter 2: Neo-Nationalism and
Language-in-Education Policy for Second/Foreign Language Learners in the
United States.- Chapter 3: The Effects of the Muslim Travel Ban on
International Students and Faculty in U.S. Universities.- Chapter 4: The Role
of Language in Social Media during the European Migrant Crisis.- Chapter 5:
Language Policy Debates and Nationalist Ideologies Online: The Case of
Vietnam.- Chapter 6: Neo-nationalism and Foreign Language Teaching in
Poland.- Chapter 7: From Sick Man to Strong Man: The Changing Roles of
English and Foreign Language Learning in an Ascendant China.- Chapter 8:
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Emotional Role of National Identity in the
Foreign Language Classroom.- Chapter 9: Nationalism, Redemptive and Banal,
in Canadian ESL Textbooks and Citizenship Study Guides.- Chapter 10:
Colombias Language Politics: Neoliberalism Under the Guise of Messianic
Nationalism.- Chapter 11: Critical Language Teacher Education as a Response
to Neo-nationalism: Framing Multi-Pluri Strategies in Brazil and
Canada.- Chapter 12: Afterword: Towards a Nation-conscious Applied
Linguistics Practice.
Kyle McIntosh is Assistant Professor of English and Writing at the University of Tampa, USA, and co-editor of the volume Graduate Studies in Second Language Writing (2015).