Decolonizing English Language Teaching Practices and Policies Plurilingual Praxeologies from the Global South

Juliana Reichert Assunção Tonelli is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Londrina State University, Brazil, where she teaches and supervises undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education and the language studies programme. She is currently the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) productivity fellow. Her main research interests are language teacher education and language education to young learners.

Freyca Calderon-Berumen is an associate professor of elementary and early childhood education and women's gender and sexuality studies at Penn State University, Altoona College. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, exploring transnational issues of language, race, class, and gender in educational settings. Her work privileges intersectionality and creates spaces for interdisciplinary de/colonizing and qualitative research where creativity and contemplative approaches are legitimized and seen as gateways for cultivating depth, integrity, expansive inquiry, and discovering critical insights linking theoretical perspectives with everyday experiences and developing culturally relevant understandings in the pursuit of equity.