Native-Speakerism in Japan
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Is the English Native Speaker a political or a linguistic concept? Native Speakerism in Japan persuades us that it is political. Houghton and Rivers have assembled a powerful group of ELT professionals with first-hand experience of Japan and Italy who argue convincingly that native speakerism always has racist and gendered overtones.
» Alan Davies, University of Edinburgh, UK
The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Multilingual Matters
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781847698681
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 21 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
«
Is the English Native Speaker a political or a linguistic concept? Native Speakerism in Japan persuades us that it is political. Houghton and Rivers have assembled a powerful group of ELT professionals with first-hand experience of Japan and Italy who argue convincingly that native speakerism always has racist and gendered overtones.
» Alan Davies, University of Edinburgh, UK
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This excellent book constitutes a significant contribution to the critical study of language education. The concept of native-speakerism, based in an ideology of deficiency as well as an extremely questionable bifurcation of 'native speakers' and 'non-native speakers', is shown to be a far more complex process in which native speakers of English are both empowered and disempowered simultaneously.
» Timothy Reagan, Nazarbayev University, Republic of Kazakhstan