English in Post-Revolutionary Iran From Indigenization to Internationalization

• Main Author: Borjian, Maryam (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications 2013
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Subjects: Teaching skills & techniques; Educational strategies & policy; Language teaching & learning (other than ELT); Language & Literature; Education
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 o...