1. The handbook has 50 prospective chapters now but there will be withdrawals and rejections before final completion. If you have a full paper to contribute between now and December 2023 feel free to approach me at [email protected]. We may still be able to use your paper.

2. If you would like to serve as a reviewer for the handbook please email me. Having reviewed three papers and provided detailed feedback, your name will be listed as a member of the Editorial Board at the front of the book on a conspicuous page.

Provisional table of contents:

The Routledge Handbook of the Sociopolitical Context of Language Learning
Edited by Chris Shei and Der-lin Chao
I. The sociopolitical context of language learning
1. Present and Future of the Ukrainian Language Learning and Teaching in Europe
2. Language as being, as wellbeing, as right, and as access to learning about oneself and the world: educator and student ideologies in an endangered language ecology in remote Central Australia
3. Politics and the shifting linguistic landscape of Hong Kong
4. Assessment of Academic Writing during COVID-19 for Nursing Students
5. Teacher agency and language policy enactment: The CEFR in English language curriculum in Vietnamese higher education
6. Revisiting the Influence of Linguistic Hegemony in Oman: The Choice of English as a Medium of Instruction
7. Negotiating multilingual language education through a democratic all-stakeholder discussion in Cambodian universities: The teaching of less learned languages other than English
8. Learning Korean as a response to Korea’s increased global presence
9. Language education ideologies in Pakistani newspapers: Ecology of languages or diffusion of English paradigm?
10. Wolof Literacy: Competing Visions of Modernity in Senegal
11. Does Thailand’s English Language Education Landscape Reflect Thainess?
12. Impact of shifts in linguistic context on Chinese Language Learning processes and results

II. Language learning and teaching as advocacy
13. Bilingual/multilingual education research in the U.S.: Racist vs. anti-racist approaches to language activism
14. Learning Portuguese in the Context of Climate Change and The Amazon
15. Addressing Social Justice in English Language and Literature Classes through Critical Pedagogy
16. Incorporating Critical Language Awareness in ELT
17. Genre analysis of Hiroshima A-bomb survivors’ testimonies
18. Implementing sustainable education through project-based learning: A case study of L2 instruction in Tunisia
19. Raising intercultural awareness in European University Alliances: opportunities, challenges and limitations
20. Learning the Language of Gender and Feminism in Postcommunist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
21. The role of Black Activism and the teaching of Portuguese
22. Oppressed or liberated? Rethinking the role of textbooks in EFL classrooms
23. Not green enough?: An ecocritical analysis of environmental content in school textbooks and teachers’ ecopedagogic skills in Pakistan
24. Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Is Christian-Style Salvation for the Social Turn Still Liberating?
25. The New Multilingual Germans: The fascinating entwinement of language and citizenship and its impact on language teaching policies

III. Identifying, dissociating and unlearning Ideology in language
26. Creating an enemy as a feature of ideological discourse. The case of contemporary Russian power in relation to Ukraine
27. Textual phenomena addressing youth: Orthographic, typographic, and ideological aspects of the Greek-Cypriot dialect
28. Walking Our Talk: Resisting Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Our Language Learning Praxis
29. A pedagogical approach to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and discussing the implications of raising metaphorical awareness in language classrooms
30. The seesaw of using Cantonese or Putonghua as the medium of instruction for teaching the Chinese Language Subject in post-colonial Hong Kong context: A storm in a teacup?
31. (Word limit reached)

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
General Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Language Documentation
Sociolinguistics