Reflections on Critical Applied Linguistics and Decoloniality: a follow-up conversation with Alastair Pennycook

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https://doi.org/10.4013/cld.2022.202.12

Abstract

Interview with Professor Alastair Pennycook.

Author Biographies

Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney (Austrália)

Professor Emeritus at the University of Technology Sydney and Research Professor at the MultiLing Centre at the University of Oslo. He is best known for books such as The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language (now a Routledge Linguistics Classic), Global Englishes and Transcultural Flows, and Posthumanist Applied Linguistics (all winners of the the BAAL Book Prize). His most recent book (with Sinfree Makoni) is Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South. A second edition of Critical Applied Linguistics, a Critical Reintroduction was published in 2021.

Viviane Pires Viana Silvestre, Universidade Estadual de Goiás (UEG)

Professor at the Universidade Estadual de Goiás, working with language teacher education at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her research interests are related to the area of ​​critical language teacher education and decoloniality.

Rosane Rocha Pessoa, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)

Professor Emeritus of English at the Faculdade de Letras (College of Letters) at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. She is currently a voluntary professor at the same university, teaching courses in the areas of language and education in the graduate program and supervising undergraduate, master and doctoral students. Her research interests are language education and language teacher education based on critical, decolonial, and posthumanist praxiologies.

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Published

2023-06-30

How to Cite

Pennycook, A., Silvestre, V. P. V., & Pessoa, R. R. (2023). Reflections on Critical Applied Linguistics and Decoloniality: a follow-up conversation with Alastair Pennycook. Calidoscópio, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.4013/cld.2022.202.12

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022): Educação Linguística e de(s)colonialidades: caminhos e desafios praxiológicos

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Interviews

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