Effecting Change in English Language Teaching Exposing Collaborators and Culprits in Japan /

• Main Author: Toh, Glenn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Language and languages-Study and teaching.; Multilingualism.; English language.; Language Education.; Language Teaching.; English.

This book is about the challenges that come with initiatives to develop a more humanized, intersectional and negotiable landscape for English Language Teaching (ELT). It sets out to problematize ingrown and ingrained practices in English teaching, weaving together obscured practices, undisclosed age...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Institutional Structures and Practices
• Chapter 3: Power Asymmetries, Oppressions, Fragmentations, Hegemonies and Imprisoning Discourses
• Chapter 4: The Place of ELT in Japanese Culture
• Chapter 5: English-speaking Western TESOL as a Trope
• Chapter 6: Transcending and Overcoming Boundaries
• Chapter 7: An English as a Lingua Franca Program
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.