Applied Linguistics in the Global South: advances and challenges

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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v26i1.58790

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Language, Applied Linguistics of the South, Race, Gender, Sexuality and Class, Critical Language Education, Decolonial Perspectives

Abstract

In this special issue, focusing on research developed through the lens of Epistemologies of the South (Molefi Asante, 2007; Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Meneses, 2020, Jean Comaroff and Jane Gordon, 2022; Pennycook; Makoni, 2019), researchers from Brazil and the Global South(s) submitted articles, essays, reviews and interviews based on the following axes: i) The politics of language constitution and its metalanguage in the Global South(s); ii) Publications in Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics from/for the Global South; iii) Language in the Global South(s) and the social inscription of difference; and iv) Learning, the everyday experience of language, critical language education and language teacher education in the Global South(s).

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Author Biographies

  • Kleber Aparecido da Silva, University of Brasília/CNPq

    Kleber Aparecido da Silva is Associate Professor 4 of the Languages course (Brazilian Portuguese as a Second Language) and of the Postgraduate courses in International Relations and Linguistics at the University of Brasília (UnB). He is the coordinator of the Critical and Advanced Language Studies Group (GECAL - UnB/CNPq). He is a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow.

  • Leketi Makalela, University of the Witwatersrand

    Leketi Makalela is Professor of Languages and Literacy at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa, and the Founding Director of the Hub for Multilingual Education and Literacies (HuMEL).

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Published

2025-07-01

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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2025): Special issue: A Linguística Aplicada do Sul Global: avanços e desafios |Applied Linguistics in the Global South: advances and challenges

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Applied Linguistics in the Global South: advances and challenges. (2025). Papers of Language and Society, 26(1), 7-21. https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v26i1.58790

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