ABSTRACT
This concluding chapter reviews the insights gained throughout the book. It discusses the decolonizing value of stating explicitly one’s locus of enunciation in two languages and of reflecting on the linguistic and cultural differences between the two. It reviews the various ways the authors understand the notion of decolonization and the various controversies raised by the decolonizing of language education in various countries. It then engages with the notion of “multilingual mindset”, proposed here as a plural entity that denotes the ways of speaking, thinking, and valuing characteristic of decolonized multilingualisms and that strives to foster greater social justice through critical pedagogies and epistemological dialogues in Latin American applied linguistics.
