Contents

1. Multilingual Colombia: Dimensions of linguistic and cultural diversity


SILVIA VALENCIA GIRALDO, NORBELLA MIRANDA AND ANNE-MARIE DE MEJIA

SECTION I

Creole and Indigenous Languages in Colombia

Decolonizing multilingual practices: Lessons from Colombia

MARIO E. LOPEZ-GOPAR


2. Preserving the Creole language of the Caribbean archipelago of San Andres and Providence: An ecolinguistic approach to multilingualism in Colombia


RAQUEL SANMIGUEL ARDILA


3. Between chants, games and elders (Andi Kanto, jarocheria ku tata ri mae mi). Local strategies for the strengthening of the Palenquero language among young people in San Basilio de Palenque (Bolivar-Colombia)


LUIS RICARDO NAVARRO DIAZ, SEBASTIAN SALGADO REYES AND RODOLFO PALOMINO CASSIANI


4. Colombia on the path of linguistic revitalization. Some thoughts from Cauca


LILIA TRIVINO GARZON AND TULIO ROJAS CURIEUX



SECTION II

Language education policy: Discourses, ideologies and local practices

Marginalizing discourses and teacher resilience in Colombian language policy and education

DAVID CASSELS JOHNSON


5. English in education policy in Colombia: Two decades of policy discourse and appropriation


NORBELLA MIRANDA AND SILVIA VALENCIA GIRALDO


6. English language teaching in rural Colombia amidst the armed conflict: A case study of teacher positioning vis-a-vis policy, practice and the profession


FERNEY CRUZ ARCILA


7. Late capitalism and the commodification of English in Colombia: The shaping of language education policy and practice


YECID ORTEGA


8. Colombian teachers of English as agents in the implementation of English language policies in a multilingual country: Villains or heroes?


ADRIANA GONZALEZ



SECTION III

Interculturality and pedagogy

Interculturality in languages and cultures education

ANTHONY J. LIDDICOAT


9. Transemiotizing and re-sourcing resources in language education: Towards a multimodal social semiotic perspective on intercultural communication


JOSE ALDEMAR ALVAREZ VALENCIA


10. Building intercultural language education in Colombia: Insights from research with English language teachers


BEATRIZ PENA DIX


11. Focusing on dimensions of interculturality in the context of language teacher education: Insights from a case study in Colombia


ISABEL TEJADA-SANCHEZ AND ANNE MARIE DE MEJIA





SECTION IV

Reimagining teacher education: Taking account of diversities and inequalities

Decolonizing and decentering language teacher education in Multilingual Colombia

JUDY SHARKEY


12. Nurturing language teacher education in Colombia from a multilingual perspective


FANNY HERNANDEZ GAVIRIA AND MARTHA BERDUGO-TORRES


13. Contesting the hegemony of English in a country declared to be multilingual: The outcome of research with English language teachers in an in-service program


CARMEN HELENA GUERRERO NIETO AND ALVARO QUINTERO-POLO


14. Crossing linguistic boundaries with community literacies: A collaborative, place-based ethnography in two urban localities in Bogota


AMPARO CLAVIJO-OLARTE AND THERESA Y. AUSTIN


15. Views on writing and pedagogic practices: A systematic review of the research literature on bilingual (Spanish/English) teaching in Colombia