English language as hydra : its impacts on non-English language cultures
In far too many places, the worldwide trade in English-language teaching, testing and publishing has become a self-perpetuating, self-congratulating, neocolonial monster - a veritable multi-headed Hydra. Too often the English language industry aggressively promotes itself as some sort of "uplifting", "essential", "proper" or even "better" means of communication than any other language. Unfortunately, its relentless global outreach is taking place at the direct expense, and the active denigration, of local and regional languages - not to mention individual identities. English Language as Hydra brings together the voices of linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging expose of this monstrous Hydra in action on four continents. It provides a showcase of the diverse and powerful impacts that this ever-evolving, gluttonous beast has had on so many non-English language cultures - as well as the surreptitious, drug-like ways in which it can infiltrate individual psyches
1 online resource (xxv, 275 pages)
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ContributorsAcknowledgementsSeries Editor’s Note - Tove Skutnabb-KangasThe Genesis of this Book - Vaughan Rapatahana and Pauline BunceForeword - Robert PhillipsonIntroduction: English Language as Thief - Vaughan Rapatahana1. The Challenge – Ndaraca ya Thiomi: Languages as Bridges - Ng˜ug˜ı wa Thiong’o2. English Language as Bully in the Republic of Nauru - Xavier Barker3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind… and Out of Line: Language Education in the Australian Indian Ocean Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Pauline Bunce4. English Language as Juggernaut – Aboriginal English and Indigenous Languages in Australia - Robyn Ober and Jeanie Bell5. English Language as Nemesis for Māori - Graham Hingangaroa Smith and Vaughan Rapatahana6. A Personal Reflection: New Zealand Māori and English - Tamati Cairns7. The Malchemy of English in Sri Lanka: Reinforcing Inequality through Imposing Extra-Linguistic Value - Arjuna Parakrama8. English Language as Governess: Expatriate English Teaching Schemes in Hong Kong - Eugene Chen Eoyang, Pauline Bunce and Vaughan Rapatahana9. English Language as Auntie: Of ‘Good Intentions’ and a Pedagogy of Possibilities – ELT in the Philippines and its Effects on Children’s Literacy Development - Lalaine F. Yanilla Aquino10. It’s Not Always English: ‘Duelling Aunties’ in Brunei Darussalam - Noor Azam Haji-Othman11. English Language as Siren Song: Hope and Hazard in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Sandra Land12. English Language as Border-Crossing: Longing and Belonging in the South Korean Experience - Joseph Sung-Yul Park13. English and Mandarin in Singapore: Partners in Crime? - Rani Rubdy14. English Language as Intruder: The Effects of English Language Education in Colombia and South America – a Critical Perspective - Anne-Marie de MejíaAfterword: Could Heracles Have Gone About Things Differently? - Alastair PennycookCoda: One Colonial Language: One Great Tragic Epic. English in Malaysia and Beyond - Muhammad Haji Salleh