ELT, Gender and International Development : : Myths of Progress in a Neocolonial World / / Roslyn Appleby.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Appleby, Roslyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

For believers in the power of English, language as aid can deliver the promise of a brighter future; but in a neocolonial world of international development, a gulf exists between belief and reality. Rich with echoes of an earlier colonial era, this book draws on the candid narratives of white women teachers, and situates classroom practices within a broad reading of the West and the Rest. What happens when white Western men and women come in to rebuild former colonies in Asia? How do English language lessons translate, or disintegrate, in a radically different world? How is English teaching linked to ideas of progress? This book presents the paradoxes of language aid in the twenty-first century in a way that will challenge your views of English and its power to improve the lives of people in the developing world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: This is Where it Crashed and Burned -- Part 1. Understanding English Language Teaching in Development -- Chapter 1. Models of Development and English Language Teaching -- Chapter 2. Time and Space in English Language Teaching, Gender and Development -- Chapter 3. Spatial Context: East Timor, Indonesia and Australia -- Part 2. Teachers’ Narrative Accounts -- Chapter 4. Being There: Teachers’ Spatial Engagements with Development Contexts -- Chapter 5. It’s a Bubble: English Language Teaching Practices in Development -- Chapter 6. Doing the Washing Up: Teaching and Gender in Development -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Spatial Practices in the Contact Zone -- Appendix A. Teachers and Projects -- Appendix B. Transcription Codes -- References -- Index