Widin Illegitimate Practices

Global English Language Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84769-484-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights

ELT education, as a commodity, takes many forms in countries all over the world. This book questions how the benefits of international English language education projects are distributed. The critical issues of language rights and linguistic diversity are pivotal in the book’s examination of domination and subordination in international language education projects. The author’s description of the role and teaching of English is based on her experience of working in ELT aid and development and fee-based projects, and through it she unmasks the interests and intentions of aid and fee-based language education projects. The two case studies that form the basis of this book recount a version of ELT marketing and project implementation that will resonate with experiences of aid recipients and university-led private sector fee-payers in many different ELT contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Widin, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Setting the Scene: The International Context of English Language Education

Chapter 2 Naming the Game: Positions and Interest in the IELEP Field

Chapter 3 Struggles in the Game of the IELEP

Chapter 4 Practices in the Project Field: ELT and Project Work

Chapter 5 Talk in the Field: The 'English Only' IELEP

Chapter 6 Cultural Practices: The Project Field

Chapter 7 The IELEP: An Illegitimate Field

Über Autor(innen)

Widin, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Widin has extensive experience and expertise in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and in teaching and research of tertiary-led pre- and in-service teacher training programs in Australia and in countries outside of Australia. She has a particular interest in the relationship between language and human rights and the sociopolitical dynamics of the English language teaching field. She is currently a senior lecturer with the University of Technology Sydney and manages the TESOL and Linguistics Education programs.