Native-Speakerism: Its Resilience and Undoing (1st ed. 2020) (Intercultural Communication and Language Education)

By: Stephanie Ann Houghton and Jérémie Bouchard

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 264 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9789811556715
Related ISBNs:: 9789811556708
Publisher:: Springer Singapore, Singapore
Date of Addition:: 02/27/21
Copyrighted By:: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Stephanie Ann Houghton
Edited by:: Jérémie Bouchard