ENGLISH

Native-Speakerism: Its Resilience and Undoing

By Stephanie Ann Houghton , Jeremie Bouchard

Book information

Publisher
Springer Singapore
Year
2020
ISBN
9789811556708, 9789811556715
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-5671-5
ISSN
2520-1735
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5447366 bytes)
Series
Intercultural Communication and Language Eduaction
Pages
287\291
Time added
2020-11-13 18:02:10

Description

This book explores native-speakerism in modern language teaching, and examines the ways in which it has been both resilient and critiqued. It provides a range of conceptual tools to situate ideological discourses and processes within educational contexts. In turn, it discusses the interdiscursive nature of ideologies and the complex ways in which ideologies influence objective and material realities, including hiring practices and, more broadly speaking, unequal distributions of power and resources. In closing, it considers why the diffusion and consumption of ideological discourses seem to persist, despite ongoing critical engagement by researchers and practitioners, and proposes alternative paradigms aimed at overcoming the problems posed by the native-speaker model in foreign language education.

Similar books