Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law

and the State

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) through the Translating Cultures Programme [grant reference AH/L006936/1]

‘Language and Art of Resistance’ SymposiumIslamic University of Gaza, 14th April 2015

Linguistic Resistance: in search of localized, creative and critical approaches in English language teaching

Maria Grazia Imperiale m.imperiale.1@research.gla.ac.uk

(PhD candidate, University of Glasgow)

Overview

- ‘The applied linguistics dilemma’ and linguistic resistance

- Capability Approach (CA) in language education

- Link between CA, Linguistic Resistance and Art of Resistance in ELT

- Methodology: Critical Participatory Action Research Teacher training course at IUG: ‘Using Art of Resistance in English language teaching’.

English: natural, neutral, beneficial?

The applied linguistics’ dilemma (Davies)

Studies on language varieties, models, standardization, World Englishes (ENL,EFL,ESL,EIL,ELF,EGL), teaching methodologies, language acquisition.

Dilemma: language educators as neutral?‘just the language’? ‘just teaching’? (Pennycook)

Critical approaches in ELT

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) through the Translating Cultures Programme [grant reference AH/L006936/1]

ELT: tool to perpetuate linguistic imperialism and cultural domination (Pennycook) (English linguistic imperialism and linguicism, Phillipson)

ELT: cultural practices

- Orientalism in ELT: ‘language produce realities’ (Pennycook) space for the construction of ‘counter-discourses’

Linguistic Resistance (Canagarajah, 2003)

- Appropriation of English: English as a deterritorialized language

- Appropriation of teaching pedagogies: classroom as a space for elaborating ELT resistant pedagogies

- Creative process of pedagogical negotiation

In search of critical, localized teaching practices for a holistic pedagogy: shift in teaching paradigm

Capability Approach in language education

Palestinian Art of Resistance in ELT?

Creative methods as critical approaches ?

Ongoing Fieldwork:Teacher Training Course at IUG

Conclusions

- Linguistic Resistance: appropriation of both English language and English language pedagogy.

- Paradigm shift needed: from competency approach to capability approach

- Art of Resistance in language teaching: contextualized, creative and critical approaches for ELT in Gaza

- Work in progress: teacher training course on ‘Using Art of Resistance in ELT’

Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law

and the State

Thank you for your attention!

شكرا

Maria Grazia Imperialem.imperiale.1@research.gla.ac.uk

(PhD candidate, University of Glasgow)