ERIC Number: EJ1393372
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
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Cutting Together-Apart of English as a Second Language in Pakistan: Insights from a Translation Studies Classroom
Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, v30 n3 p237-248 2023
This article uses Karen Barad's agential realism to re/world the English language as used in Pakistan. My arguments draw on my students' term project where they not only 'resist' the ex-coloniser's language by creatively adapting it while translating an Urdu text into English but make gender related and political statements. Using post/colonialism as a Baradian apparatus, I re/configure my students' relationship with English in conjunction with concepts like Self/Other, linguabridity and appropriation. I suggest that it would be desirable for students to use English in a way that supports international communication, in addition to a local variety that gives form to their beliefs and values, their culture and experience. The re/creation of English in my class as a temporally entangled phenomenon - 'a cut together apart-one move'- denotes the im/permanence and in/determinacy of the relationship which remains open to a new world of diffractive im/possibilities.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Translation, Language Usage, Communication (Thought Transfer), Postcolonialism, Urdu
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
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