Why English? : confronting the hydra /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Bunce, Pauline (Editor), Phillipson, Robert (Editor), Rapatahana, Vaughan (Editor), Tupas, T. Ruanni F. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bristol ; Buffalo ; Toronto : Multilingual Matters, [2016]
Series:	Linguistic diversity and language rights ; 13.
Subjects:	Languages in contact. English language > Foreign countries. English language > Influence on foreign languages. English language > Political aspects. English language > Social aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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pt. 1 Hydra at Large
1. English Language in a Global Context: Between Expansion and Resistance / Alamin Mazrui
2. Promoting English: Hydras Old and New / Robert Phillipson
3. English, Neocolonialism and Forgetting / Ruanni Tupas
4. English Language as Naga in Indonesia / Hywel Coleman
5. Offshore Call Centre Work is Breeding a New Colonialism / Mehdi Boussebaa
pt. 2 Hydra Mythology
6. Confronting Language Myths, Linguicism and Racism in English Language Teaching in Japan / Tomoyo Okuda
7. Mr Jones: Mi Laik Askim Yu Samting / Hilary Smith
8. Must the (Western) Hydra Be Blond(e)? Performing Cultural `Authenticity' in Intercultural Education / Phiona Stanley
9. Voluntary Overseas English Language Teaching: A Myopic, Altruistic Hydra / Pauline Bunce
10. English Language as `Fatal Gadget' in Iceland / Ari Pall Kristinsson
11. English Hydra as Invader on the Post-Communist `New Periphery' in Bulgaria / Bill Templer
12. English Alphabet: Alpha-Best or Alpha-Beast? / Pauline Bunce
13. `Languages' / Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
pt. 3 Confronting the Hydra
14. Mauritian Kreol Confronts English and French Hydras
Lindsey Collen and the Ledikasyon pu Travayer (LPT) team
15. `Hydra Languages' and Exclusion versus Local Languages and Community Participation in three African Countries / Godfrey Sentumbwe
16. Destruction of Nadia's Dream: The English Language Tyrant in Pakistan's Education System / Zubeida Mustafa
17. (Illusory) Promise of English in India / A. Giridhar Rao
pt. 4 Resistance and Cohabitation with the Hydra
18. Personal Reflection on Chican@ Language and Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands: The English-Language Hydra as Past and Present Imperialism / Aja Y. Martinez
19. Struggle to Raise Bilingual Children in the Belly of the English Hydra Beast: The United States of America / Christof Demont-Heinrich
20. TEFL and International Politics: A Personal Narrative / Julian Edge
21. Hungary: A Sham Fightback Against the Domination of English / Miklos Kontra
22. English Language as a Trojan Horse within the People's Republic of China / Vaughan Rapatahana
23. TEFL as Hydra: Rescuing Brazilian Teacher Educators from `Privilege' / Clarissa Menezes Jordao
24. `Writing back (to the centre)' / Vaughan Rapatahana.