Abstract
Neoliberalism, which promotes a global economy regulated by transnational market forces, suggests that English language teaching and learning be commodified as English becomes “a way of securing economic advancement, elevated status and prestige and trans-national mobility” (Singh, Kell, & Pandian, 2002, pp. 53–54). As part of this global commodification of English, the number of native-English speakers hired as expat English teachers in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context is increasing.
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Shi, L., Lin, RP. (2016). Teaching English as a Global Language in the Age of Neoliberalism. In: Guo, S., Guo, Y. (eds) Spotlight on China. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-669-9_10
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