Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: English Fissions in Iran -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- 1. The Politics of Educational Transfers: Process, Causes and Agents -- 2. The History of English in Iran (1836-1979) -- Part 2: English in Post-Revolutionary Iran (1979-Present) -- 3. The Revolutionary Period (1979-1988) -- 4. The Period of Reconstruction and Privatization (1989-1997) -- 5. The Period of Global Outlook (1997-2005) -- 6. Returning to Revolutionary Roots (2005-Present) -- 7. Forces From Above, Forces From Below -- Appendix -- References -- Index
This book unravels the story of English, the language of 'the enemies', in post-revolutionary Iran. Drawing on diverse qualitative and quantitative fieldwork data, it examines the nation's English at the two levels of policy and practice to determine the politics, causes, and agents of the two diverging trends of indigenization/localization and internationalization/Anglo-Americanization within Iran's English education. Situating English in the nation's broader social, political, economic, and historical contexts, the volume explores the intersection of the nation's English education with variables such as power, economy, policy, ideology, and information technology over the past three decades. The multidisciplinary insights of the book will be of value to scholars of global English, education policies and reforms and language policy as well as those who are specifically concerned with education in Iran.
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English language--Foreign countries. English language--Spoken English--Iran. English language--Study and teaching--Iran. English language--Foreign countries. Language policy--Iran. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language.
English education in Iran. Iran. fieldwork data. language and ideology. language policy. national identity. power.