By: Vaughan Rapatahana (Editor), Pauline Bunce (Editor)

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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", "essential", "proper" or even "better" means of communication than any other language. Unfortunately, its relentless global outreach is taking place at the direct expense, and the active denigration, of local and regional languages - not to mention individual identities. English Language as Hydra brings together the voices of linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging expose of this monstrous Hydra in action on four continents. It provides a showcase of the diverse and powerful impacts that this ever-evolving, gluttonous beast has had on so many non-English language cultures - as well as the surreptitious, drug-like ways in which it can infiltrate individual psyches.

A wonderful and rewarding collection of contributions which critically examine how English can take over the language curriculum in schools throughout the world, almost always at the expense of other languages. Andy Kirkpatrick, author of English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: A Multilingual Model English Language as Hydra is both poignant and honest in its reasoned and passionate evocation of this language's entrenched link with some of the ills of the world and its impact on speakers' subjectivities. Ruanni Tupas, author of (Re)making Society: The Politics of Language, Discourse, and Identity in the Philippines English Language as Hydra opens our eyes to how empires and imperialism operate through linguistic ideologies and discourse strategies as powerful tools of domination - often with the active participation of the leaders of subaltern peoples and minorities. Rainer Enrique Hamel, author of Language Empires, Linguistic Imperialism and the Future of Global Languages

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SERIES EDITOR'S NOTE Tove Skutnabb-Kangas THE GENESIS OF THIS BOOK Vaughan Rapatahana and Pauline Bunce FOREWORD Robert Phillipson English Language as - ? INTRODUCTION: ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS HYDRA Vaughan Rapatahana English Language as Thief THE CHALLENGE Ngugi wa Thiong'o Ndaraca ya Thiomi: Languages as bridges ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS BULLY 1. Xavier Barker English language as Bully in the Republic of Nauru 2. Pauline Bunce Out of sight, out of mind - and out of line: Language education in the Australian Indian Ocean Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS JUGGERNAUT 3. Robyn Ober and Jeanie Bell English Language as Juggernaut - Aboriginal English and Indigenous languages in Australia ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS NEMESIS 4. Graham Hingangaroa Smith and Vaughan Rapatahana English Language as Nemesis for Maori 5. Tamati Cairns Personal reflection: The New Zealand experience: English is the worst kind of thief ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS MALCHEMIST 6. Arjuna Parakrama The Malchemy of English in Sri Lanka: Reinforcing Inequality through Imposing Extra-Linguistic Value ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS GOVERNESS 7. Eugene Chen Eoyang, Pauline Bunce and Vaughan Rapatahana Expatriate English teaching schemes in Hong Kong ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS AUNTIE 8. Lalaine Aquino Of 'Good Intentions' and a Pedagogy of Possibilities: ELT in the Philippines and its effects on childrens' literacy development 9. Noor Azam Haji-Othman Is it always English? Duelling Aunties in Brunei Darussalam ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS SIREN SONG 10. Sandra Land English language as siren song: Hope and hazard in post-apartheid South Africa ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS BORDER 11. Joseph Sung-Yul Park Longing and belonging in the South Korean experience ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS PARTNER 12. Rani Rubdy English in Singapore: a partner in crime? ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS INTRUDER 13. Anne-Marie de Mejia The Effects of English Language Education in Colombia and South America - a critical perspective AFTERWORD Alastair Pennycook Could Heracles have gone about things differently? CODA Muhammad Haji Salleh One Colonial Language: One great tragic epic. English in Malaysia and well beyond. OUR CONTRIBUTORS

ISBN: 9781847697509
ISBN-10: 184769750X
Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 22nd June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.8  x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.0010