Uncovering ideology in English language teaching : identifying the 'native speaker' frame / Robert J. Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Robert J., author.

Series:

English language education (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 19.

English language education ; volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Linguistic informants.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Education and state.

Learning.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

xxi, 190 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

Summary:

This book introduces the concept of the 'native speaker frame: a perceptual filter within English Language Teaching (ELT) which views the linguistic and cultural norms and the educational technology of the anglophone West as being normative, while the norms and practices of non-Western countries are viewed as deficient. Based on a rich source of ethnographic data, and employing a frame analysis approach, it investigates the ways in which this 'native-speaker framing influenced the construction and operation of a Japanese university EFL program. While the program appeared to be free of explicit expressions of native-speakerism, such as discrimination against teachers, this study found that the practices of the program were underpinned by implicitly native-speakerist assumptions based on the stereotyping of Japanese students and the Japanese education system. The book provides a new perspective on debates around native-speakerism by examining how the dominant framing of a program may still be influenced by the ideology, even in cases where overt signs of native-speakerism appear to be absent.

Contents:

Foreword

1. Setting the Scene: Motivation, Location, and Methods

Part I: Theorising the 'Native Speaker' Frame

2. 'Native Speakers" and Native-speakerism

3. The 'Native Speaker' Frame: Establishing a Theoretical Framework

Part II: Identifying the 'Native Speaker' Frame

4. Equality in a 'Professional Utopia'

5. Educational Technology and the 'Native Speaker' Frame

6. Professionalism, Training, and Reinforcement

7. Official Policy and Acts of Cultural Resistance

JDACP and 'The Inverted Curriculum'

Changing Perspectives

8. Conclusion

Appendix A: Sample Interview Agenda

Appendix B: Detailed Coding Categories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3030462307

9783030462307

OCLC:

1145601663