Overview
- Unpacks problems presented by the native-speaker model in foreign language education programs
- Provides a range of conceptual tools to situate ideological discourses and processes within educational contexts
- Documents some of the shifts underway from native-speakerism to post-native-speakerism
Part of the book series: Intercultural Communication and Language Education (ICLE)
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This book explores native-speakerism in modern language teaching, and examines the ways in which it has been both resilient and critiqued. It provides a range of conceptual tools to situate ideological discourses and processes within educational contexts. In turn, it discusses the interdiscursive nature of ideologies and the complex ways in which ideologies influence objective and material realities, including hiring practices and, more broadly speaking, unequal distributions of power and resources. In closing, it considers why the diffusion and consumption of ideological discourses seem to persist, despite ongoing critical engagement by researchers and practitioners, and proposes alternative paradigms aimed at overcoming the problems posed by the native-speaker model in foreign language education.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The ‘Resilience’ of Native-Speakerism
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Front Matter
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The ‘Undoing’ of Native-Speakerism
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Stephanie Ann Houghton PhD is an Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication at the Faculty of Art and Regional Design, Saga University, Japan. She has published multiple academic books and articles in peer-reviewed international journals. She is co-editor of the book series Intercultural Communication and Language Education with Melina Porto. Addressing the development of intercultural communicative competence, her main research areas include intercultural dialogue, native-speakerism and citizenship education, with a special focus on the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.
Jérémie Bouchard PhD is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan. In his research, he adopts a sociological approach to the study of language, language-in-education policy, and intercultural communicative competence as emergent outcomes of the complex interactions between culture, structure and agency.
Jérémie Bouchard PhD is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Hokkai Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan. In his research, he adopts a sociological approach to the study of language, language-in-education policy, and intercultural communicative competence as emergent outcomes of the complex interactions between culture, structure and agency.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Native-Speakerism
Book Subtitle: Its Resilience and Undoing
Editors: Stephanie Ann Houghton, Jérémie Bouchard
Series Title: Intercultural Communication and Language Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5671-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5670-8Published: 14 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5673-9Published: 14 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5671-5Published: 13 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2520-1735
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1743
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 287
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics