English Language as Hydra : : Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures / / ed. by Vaughan Rapatahana, Pauline Bunce.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aquino, Lalaine F. Yanilla,; Barker, Xavier,; Bell, Jeanie,; Bunce, Pauline,; Eoyang, Eugene Chen,; Haji-Othman, Noor Azam,; Land, Sandra,; Mejía, Anne-Marie de,; Negara, Sasterawan,; Ober, Robyn,; Parakrama, Arjuna,; Park, Joseph Sung-Yul,; Pennycook, Alastair,; Phillipson, Robert,; Rapatahana, Vaughan,; Rubdy, Rani,; Salleh, Muhammad Haji,; Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove,; Smith, Graham Hingangaroa,; Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa,
• HerausgeberIn: Bunce, Pauline,; Rapatahana, Vaughan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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”...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Series Editor’s Note
• The Genesis of this Book
• Foreword
• Introduction: English Language as Thief
• 1. The Challenge – Ndaraca ya Thiomi: Languages as Bridges
• 2. English Language as Bully in the Republic of Nauru
• 3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind… and Out of Line: Language Education in the Australian Indian Ocean Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• 4. English Language as Juggernaut – Aboriginal English and Indigenous Languages in Australia
• 5. English Language as Nemesis for Ma¯ori
• 6. A Personal Reflection: New Zealand Māori and English
• 7. The Malchemy of English in Sri Lanka: Reinforcing Inequality through Imposing Extra-Linguistic Value
• 8. English Language as Governess: Expatriate English Teaching Schemes in Hong Kong
• 9. English Language as Auntie: Of ‘Good Intentions’ and a Pedagogy of Possibilities – ELT in the Philippines and its Effects on Children’s Literacy Development
• 10. It’s Not Always English: ‘Duelling Aunties’ in Brunei Darussalam
• 11. English Language as Siren Song: Hope and Hazard in Post-Apartheid South Africa
• 12. English Language as Border-Crossing: Longing and Belonging in the South Korean Experience
• 13. English and Mandarin in Singapore: Partners in Crime?
• 14. English Language as Intruder: The Effects of English Language Education in Colombia and South America – a Critical Perspective
• Afterword: Could Heracles Have Gone About Things Differently?
• Coda: One Colonial Language: One Great Tragic Epic. 263 English in Malaysia and Beyond