(En)Countering Native-speakerism (eBook)

Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Ireri Armenta, University of Guanajuato, Mexico Pamela Aboshiha, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Yeonsuk Bae, ELT Practitioner Anne Swan, ELT Practitioner Yasemin Oral, ?stanbul University, Turkey Ayesha Kamal, Independent Scholar Irasema Mora Pablo, University of Guanajuato, Mexico Caroline Fell Kurban, MEF University, Turkey Victoria Odeniyi, University of Leicester, UK Nasima Yamchi, ELT Practitioner William M. Sughrua, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Mexico

Cover 1
Contents 6
List of Figures and Tables 8
Foreword 9
Acknowledgements 13
Notes on Contributors 14
Introduction 16
Part I: Exposing the Ideologies Promoting Native-speakerist Tendencies in ELT 24
1 Native-speakerism: Taking the Concept Forward and Achieving Cultural Belief 25
2 Researching Discourses of Culture and Native-speakerism 40
Part II: Native-speakerism and Teachers of English 55
3 Rachel’s Story: Development of a ‘Native Speaker’ English Language Teacher 56
4 Redefining English Language Teacher Identity 72
5 The Influence of Native-speakerism on CLIL Teachers in Korea 88
Part III: Native-speakerism and Perceptions of Identity 104
6 The Challenge of Native-speakerism in ELT: Labelling and Categorising 105
7 Constructing the English Teacher: Discourses of Attachment and Detachment at a Mexican University 121
8 Interrogating Assumptions of Native-speakerism from the Perspective of Kuwait University English Language Students 136
9 The Role English Plays in the Construction of Professional Identities in NEST-NNES Bilingual Marriages in Istanbul 153
Part IV: Native-speakerism in the Academic Environment 170
10 The Politics of Remediation: Cultural Disbelief and Non-traditional Students 171
11 ‘I am not what you think I am’: EFL Undergraduates’ Experience of Academic Writing, Facing Discourses of Formulaic Writing 187
12 Perceptions of Alternative Research Writing: Conjuring up ‘Nostalgic Modernism’ to Combat the ‘Native English Speaker’ and ‘Non-native English Speaker’ Differentiation amongst TESOL Academics 203
Index 219