Native-Speakerism in Japan Intergroup Dynamics in Foreign Language Education

by Houghton, Stephanie Ann; Rivers, Damian J.

• ISBN13: 9781847698698
• ISBN10: 1847698697
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-02-19
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

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. Existing work has focused upon the struggle of non-native teachers, but this innovative volume explores language-based forms of prejudice against native-speaker teachers.

Author Biography

Stephanie A. Houghton is an Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication at Saga University, Japan. She holds a PhD in Education from Durham University, UK. She is author of Intercultural Dialogue in Practice, co-author of Developing Criticality through Foreign Language Education (with Etsuko Yamada), and co-editor of Becoming Intercultural: Inside and Outside the Classroom (with Yau Tsai).Damian J. Rivers holds an MSc in Social Psychology, an MA in Applied Linguistics, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics/Sociolinguistics from the University of Leicester, UK. He is currently an Associate Professor at Osaka University and undertakes research into intergroup dynamics in foreign language education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Stephanie A. Houghton and Damian J. Rivers: Introduction: Redefining Native-Speakerism

PART 1 NATIVE-SPEAKERISM: SHIFTING TO A POSTMODERN PARADIGM

1. Adrian Holliday: ‘Native Speaker' Teachers and Cultural Belief

PART 2 ‘NATIVE SPEAKER' TEACHERS IN WORKPLACE CONFLICT

2. David Petrie: (Dis)Integration of Mother Tongue Teachers in Italian Universities: Human Rights Abuses and the Quest for Equal Treatment in the European Single Market

3. Kirk Masden: Kumamoto General Union vs. The Prefectural University of Kumamoto: Reviewing the Decision Rendered by the Kumamoto District Court

4. Stephanie A. Houghton: The Overthrow of the Foreign Lecturer Position, and its Aftermath

5. Damian J. Rivers: Institutionalized Native-Speakerism: Voices of Dissent and Acts of Resistance

6. Joe Geluso: Negotiating a Professional Identity: Non-Japanese Teachers of English in Pre-Tertiary Education in Japan

7. Joseph Falout: Forming Pathways of Belonging: Social Inclusion for Teachers Abroad

PART 3 EMPLOYMENT POLICIES AND PATTERNS IN JAPANESE TERTIARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION

8. Ryoko Tsuneyoshi: Communicative English in Japan and ‘Native Speakers of English'

9. Blake E. Hayes: Hiring Criteria for Japanese University English-Teaching Faculty

10. Salem Kim Hicks: On The (Out)Skirts of TESOL Networks of Homophily: Substantive Citizenship in Japan

11. Kayoko Hashimoto: The Construction of the ‘Native Speaker' in Japan's Educational Policies For TEFL

12. Evan Samuel Heimlich: The Meaning of Japan's Role of Professional Foreigner

PART 4 NATIVE-SPEAKERISM AS A MULTI-FACETED AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PHENOMENON

13. Glenn Toh: Scrutinizing the Native Speaker as Referent, Entity and Project

14. Ryuko Kubota and Donna Fujimoto: Racialized Native Speakers: Voices of Japanese American English Language Professionals

15. Jennifer Yphantides: Native-Speakerism through English-Only Policies: Teachers, Students and the Changing Face of Japan

PART 5 NATIVE-SPEAKERISM FROM SOCIO-HISTORICAL VIEWPOINTS

16. Robert M. McKenzie: Changing Perceptions? A Variationist Sociolinguistic Perspective on Native Speaker Ideologies and Standard English in Japan

17. Philip Seargeant: Ideologies of Nativism and Linguistic Globalisation

18. Martine Derivry-Plard: The Native Speaker Language Teacher: Through Time and Space