Worldwide English Language Education Today

Ideologies, Policies and Practices

Ali Al-Issa, Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780429941276
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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 ideologies underlying the thinking and actions of different members of society about ELT and how these inform overt and covert policies at the national level and beyond. They examine the implications of investigating ELT ideologies and policies for advancing socio-political understandings of practical aspects such as instruction, materials, assessment, and teacher education in the field.

Introducing new persepctives on the theory and practice of language teaching today, this book is ideal reading for researchers and postgraduate students interested in applied linguistics and language education, faculty members of higher education institutions, English language teachers, and policy makers and planners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 Whose English(es)? Naming and boundary-drawing as language-ideological practices in the global English debate
• 2 Policies of English language teaching as part of the global “war of ideas”
• 3 The English literature classroom as a site of ideological contestation
• 4 Equal chances for all Namibians through English? Language ideology and its consequences in the multilingual classroom
• 5 “Make yourself look as White as possible!” Navigating privilege in English language teaching in South Korea; an autoethnography
• 6 Identity as/in language policy: negotiating the bounds of equipping “global human resources” in Japanese university-level (language) education
• 7 Ideology and culture in EFL textbooks in the era of globalization in Turkey
• 8 The glotopolítica of English teaching to Latinx students in the US
• Ideology in language policy and educational practice: an afterword
• Index