The Struggle to Teach English as an International Language

by Holliday, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780194421843
• ISBN10: 0194421848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book addresses the issue of how to teach English in diverse locations. Central to the discussion is the balance of power in classroom and curriculum settings, the relationship between language, culture, and discourse, and the change in the ownership of English.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Preface and methodology	ix
The struggle for new relationships	1	(16)
ESOL educators: the politics of labelling	1	(7)
English as an international language	8	(3)
Two positions	11	(5)
The sites of struggle	16	(1)
Culturist perceptions of `us' and `them'	17	(22)
The constituents of culturism	17	(6)
A non-essentialist view	23	(1)
Culturism in TESOL	24	(6)
Excavating the strata of culturism	30	(3)
Complex identities	33	(4)
Not a simple matter	37	(2)
The legacy of lockstep	39	(24)
A moving, adapting practice	39	(1)
Cultural icons	40	(5)
The residues of audiolingualism	45	(15)
Control and transportable professional confidence	60	(3)
`Learner-centredness' and `autonomy'	63	(22)
Learner-centredness	63	(5)
Bureaucratization and technicalization in practice	68	(10)
Autonomy, native-speakerism, and culturism	78	(6)
The need to see beyond the ideology	84	(1)
Social autonomy and authenticity	85	(26)
Classroom regime as inhibitor	89	(7)
Resistance	96	(8)
Social authenticity	104	(4)
An opening up, and an undoing of prejudice	108	(3)
`Stakeholder-centredness'	111	(26)
Projects and people	111	(4)
Writing the stakeholders in	115	(4)
Devaluing other realities	119	(9)
Bucking the imperialism thesis	128	(7)
Seeing individual richness	135	(2)
Critiquing appropriate methodology	137	(20)
Separating the positive from the negative	137	(4)
`Our' system or people	141	(14)
The puzzle of Position 2	155	(2)
The struggle for cultural continuity	157	(22)
Correction vs. understanding	157	(1)
Dealing with professional division	158	(4)
Addressing deeper political issues	162	(3)
Understanding other agendas	165	(4)
Working from the inside out	169	(5)
The interpersonal and the global	174	(2)
Loose ends and enriching encounters	176	(3)
Bibliography	179	(10)
Index of names	189	(2)
Index	191