This is queer linguistics oriented around social action and social justice. ![]() The papers specify changes in policy and practice that will bring endorsements of gender and sexual diversity(s) into the classroom. “These papers explore the damages created by curriculum, instruction and educational policy when classroom practice endorses heteronormative, social and linguistic privilege. The particular grappling with ‘representations, constructions and negotiations’ gives the language teaching world what it needs: a reckoning with queer identities and the places of intersection with a heteronormative world.” – Allyson Jule, Trinity Western University, Canada The English language classroom has never been explored like this before. ![]() Łukasz Pakuła has done a remarkable job of understanding where the field has been, who has contributed to it, and where it needs to go now. “This is a breath of fresh air – a collection of scholars from nine different countries who come together here to focus on sexuality in language education through a linguistic lens.
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