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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791600603321

Autore

Appleby Roslyn

Titolo

ELT, gender and international development [[electronic resource] ] : myths of progress in a neocolonial world / / Roslyn Appleby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, c2010

ISBN

1-283-14757-2

1-84769-305-9

1-84769-303-2

1-84769-482-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 243 p. ) : ill., map

Collana

Critical language and literacy studies

Disciplina

428/.0071

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign countries

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

Women teachers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: This is Where it Crashed and Burned -- 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 -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.