Language as Power in the Language Teacher Education Ecosystem

Jaber Kamali (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

75 Seiten

2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-73381-6 (ISBN)

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This Element aims to examine how language operates as power across the ecosystem of language teacher education (LTE). It maps how language-as-power (LaP) works at three layers: microsystem (teachers and classrooms), mesosystem (institutions), and macrosystem (socio-politics). Chapter 1 surveys LaP historically, tracing its historical evolution from Plato to contemporary theorists and showing how these ideas shape LTE. Building on this history, Chapters 2–4 unpack LaP across ecological layers: microsystem, mesosystem, and macrosystem. Chapter 5 looks forward, analyzing AI's redistribution and intensification of power at each scale, and applying a 3Ps (possible, probable, preferable) futurology to chart equitable pathways. Anchored in experiences from the Global South, the Element argues that LaP in LTE needs awareness and action. It offers ideas on how to address these issues in LTE by solutions such as widening epistemic access, contesting monolingual norms, and institutionalizing dialogic, justice-oriented professionalism and trans-speakerism, to name a few.

Preface; 1. LaP and the Foundations of LTE; 2. LaP in LTE Microsystem; 3. LaP in LTE Mesosystem; 4. LaP in LTE Macrosystem; 5. Future Trajectories of LaP in the LTE Ecosystem; References.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Language and Power
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-009-73381-8 / 1009733818
ISBN-13	978-1-009-73381-6 / 9781009733816
Zustand	Neuware