Uncovering ideology in English language teaching : identifying the 'native speaker' frame / Robert J. Lowe.

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Uncovering ideology in English language teaching : identifying the 'native speaker' frame / Robert J. Lowe.

9783030462314 (electronic book)
3030462315 (electronic book)
3030462307
9783030462307

Cham : Springer, 2020.

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10.1007/978-3-030-46

PE1128.A2

428.0071

This book introduces the concept of the 'native speaker frame: a perceptual filter within English Language Teaching (ELT) which views the linguistic and cultural norms and the educational technology of the anglophone West as being normative, while the norms and practices of non-Western countries are viewed as deficient. Based on a rich source of ethnographic data, and employing a frame analysis approach, it investigates the ways in which this 'native-speaker framing influenced the construction and operation of a Japanese university EFL program. While the program appeared to be free of explicit expressions of native-speakerism, such as discrimination against teachers, this study found that the practices of the program were underpinned by implicitly native-speakerist assumptions based on the stereotyping of Japanese students and the Japanese education system. The book provides a new perspective on debates around native-speakerism by examining how the dominant framing of a program may still be influenced by the ideology, even in cases where overt signs of native-speakerism appear to be absent.

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