Maryam Borjian is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. She is the author of English in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2013, Multilingual Matters) and editor of Language and Globalization: An Autoethnographic Approach (2017, Routledge).

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 of the two diverging trends of indigenization/localization and internationalization/Anglo-Americanization within Iran's English education. Situating English in the nation's broader social, political, economic, and historical contexts, the volume explores the intersection of the nation's English education with variables such as power, economy, policy, ideology, and information technology over the past three decades. The multidisciplinary insights of the book will be of value to scholars of global English, education policies and reforms and language policy as well as those who are specifically concerned with education in Iran.

Foreword (by Ofelia Garcia)

Preface

Introduction

PART 1: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

1. The Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending

2. History of English in Iran (1836-1979) PART 2: ENGLISH IN POST REVOLUTIONARY IRAN (1979-PRESENT)

3. The Revolutionary Period (1979-1988)

4. The Period of Reconstruction and Privatization (1989-1997)

5. The Period of Global Outlook (1997-2005)

6. Returning to the Revolutionary Roots (2005-present)

7. Reflections: Forces From above, Forces From Below