Language as Power in the Language Teacher Education Ecosystem
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Language as Power in the Language Teacher Education Ecosystem
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See moreThis 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).
Maps language-as-power across the LTE ecosystem's micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, tracing historical roots and envisioning future trajectories, including AI.
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).
Section 1 surveys LaP historically, tracing its historical evolution from Plato to contemporary theorists and showing how these ideas shape LTE. Building on this history, Sections 2โ4 unpack LaP across ecological layers: microsystem, mesosystem, and macrosystem.
Section 5 looks forward, analysing AI's redistribution of power at each scale, and applying a 3Ps (possible, probable, and preferable) futurology to chart potential 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 through solutions such as widening epistemic access, contesting monolingual norms, and institutionalising dialogic, justice-oriented professionalism and trans-speakerism, to name a few.
Series: Elements in Language and Power
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781009733809
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 5.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 145g
Pages: 90
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