Abstract
Deleuze and Guattari, contemporaries of Foucault, Sartre, Derrida, and de Beauvoir, were influential French philosophers who wrote extensively on post‐structuralism, philosophy, psychiatry, film, and fine art. In ways that foreshadowed what we now call “New Materialism,” they argued that language is not a hierarchically organized and standardized set of biologically derived rules that support the concept of universal standards associated with the notion of the native speaker. This entry makes the connections between New Materialism and Deleuzo–Guattarian theory to place into context an international professional development project in which Chinese second language teachers were encouraged to challenge the colonial implications of the native‐speaker fallacy and construct pedagogical material designed for their own pedagogical contexts.