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https://doi.org/10.14483/22487085.23933Published:
2025-07-22Issue:
Vol. 27 No. 1 (2025): CALJ: january-juneSection:
EditorialReimagining ELT through Locality, Inclusion, and Critical Engagement
Reimaginando la Enseñanza del Inglés desde la Localidad, la Inclusión y el Compromiso Crítico
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In this editorial note, we want to underscore this imperative by exploring how local knowledge is often exported to global academic forums without due attention to the sociohistorical contexts in which it is produced. Our emphasis lies not only on the importance of contributing to international academic discourse but also on preserving the cultural and pedagogical integrity of local practices. Around the world—and notably across Latin America—teachers, researchers, and local publishers are challenging the ELT statu quo. They insist that ELT must speak to the lived realities of communities, draw on diverse ways of knowing, and foster social transformation rather than mere linguistic proficiency. We deem the role of local journals to be worth highlighting in sustaining alternative narratives—those rooted in teacher experience and shaped by community engagement—which often go unrecognized in dominant models of knowledge production.
Abstract (es)
En esta nota editorial queremos destacar dicho imperativo, explorando cómo el conocimiento local es a menudo exportado a foros académicos globales sin la debida atención a los contextos sociohistóricos en los que se produce. Nuestro énfasis no solo radica en la importancia de contribuir al discurso académico internacional, sino también en preservar la integridad cultural y pedagógica de las prácticas locales. En todo el mundo—y especialmente en América Latina—docentes, investigadores y editoriales locales están desafiando el statu quo de la ELT. Insisten en que la enseñanza del inglés debe responder a las realidades vividas por las comunidades, nutrirse de diversas formas de conocimiento y propiciar una transformación social más allá del dominio lingüístico. Consideramos que el rol de las revistas locales merece ser resaltado, pues sostienen narrativas alternativas—arraigadas en la experiencia docente y moldeadas por el compromiso comunitario—que a menudo no son reconocidas en los modelos dominantes de producción de conocimiento.
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