1st Edition

Worldwide English Language Education Today Ideologies, Policies and Practices

Edited By Ali Al-Issa, Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini Copyright 2020
172 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the ideologies, policies, and practices of English language education around the world today. It shows the ways in which ideology is a constituent part of the social realities of English language teaching (ELT) and how ELT policies and practices are shaped by ideological positions that privilege some participants and marginalize others. Each chapter considers the multiple... Read more

Preface

Ali Al-Issa, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, Alzahra University, Iran

Foreword

Ahmar Mahboob, University of Sydney, Australia

Chapter 1: Whose English(es)?: Naming and Boundary-Drawing as Language-Ideological Processes in the Global English Debate

Andrew Sewell, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Chapter 2:Policies of English Language Teaching as Part of the Global "War of Ideas"

Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, Alzahra University, Iran

Shiva Babu, Alzahra University, Iran

Chapter 3: The English Literature Classroom as a Site of Ideological Contestation

Brenton Doecke, Deaking University, Australia

John Yandell, University College London, UK

Chapter 4: Equal Chances for All Namibians through English?: Language Ideology and Its Consequences in the Multilingual Classroom

Helene Steigertahl, Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany

Chapter 5: "Make Yourself Look as White as Possible!": Navigating Privilege in English Language Teaching in South Korea; An Autoethnography

Jennifer Burton, University of Toronto, Canada

Chapter 6: Identity as/in Language Policy: Negotiating the Bounds of Equipping "Global Human Resources" in Japanese University-Level (language) Educaation

Nathanael Rudolph, Mukogawa Women’s University, Japan

Chapter 7: Ideology and the Culture in EFL Textbooks in the Era of Globalization in Turkey

YaseminKirkgoz, Çukurovav University, Turkey

Chapter 8: The Glotopolitica of English Teaching to Latinx Students in the U.S.

Ofelia Garcia & Lara Alonso, The Graduate Centre, City University of New York, USA

Afterword

Tony Liddicoat, University of Warwick, UK, University of South Australia, Australia

Biography

Ali Al-Issa is Associate Professor of English Language Education at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman.



Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini is Associate Professor of English Language Education at the Department of English Language and Literature, Alzahra University, Iran.