ABSTRACT

This chapter places critical perspectives on glob(c)alization, (glocal) languages, and language education in Brazil. It presents a brief state-of-the-art of globalization and its connections to glocal relations and language education and discusses some perspectives regarding language education in Brazil through curricular analysis and, finally, through the voices of some pre-service teachers. This chapter argues that the dichotomies “us” versus “them", traditional versus critical are quite unproductive—almost a fallacy—for each language educator. As sides of the same coin, they cannot be seen separately, for they depend on each other. Moreover, linguists and applied linguists should make amends to each other rather than keep feeding a world of “us” versus “them". As if within an entropic relationship, they depend on each other to strengthen and establish themselves as a field of language.