“Goebel's book is a carefully crafted examination of how talk mediates social relations in the context of ethnic diversity….
These are all regulated by the state which, while working to maintain an Indonesian identity, relegates local languages to peripheries in space and time, and regulates access to all language resources, creating an upward spiral of peripheralization wherein the levels of proficiency in local, national, and English languages represent access gained to state-provided educational resources. More salient are the internationalization of standards, global corporate and media flows of information, and access to educational and information resources. Globalization is found to be part and parcel of the distribution of English around the world however, English's presence around the world is understood to be just one manifestation of contemporary globalization. In order to understand English, language ecologies, and globalization in situ, I triangulated these findings with language and education policy creation and negotiation at micro-, meso- and macro- levels, (Blommaert, 2005 Hornberger & Hult, 2010 McCarty, 2011 Pennycook, 2001, 2010). From my position as teacher-researcher and insider-outsider in an undergraduate English Department and the community surrounding the university, I engaged in reflections with students and educators in examining local language ecologies needs for and access to English language resources and how English majors negotiated "double positionalities" as both members of a global community of English speakers and experts in local meaning systems within which English forms played a role. This ethnographic study of language use and English language learners in Central Java, Indonesia examines globalization processes within and beyond language processes of language shift and change in language ecologies and critical and comprehensive approaches to the teaching of English around the world.
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