Native-Speakerism: Its Resilience and Undoing

This book explores native-speakerism in modern language teaching, and examines the ways in which it has been both resilient and critiqued. It provides a range of conceptual tools to situate ideological discourses and processes within educational contexts. In turn, it discusses the interdiscursive nature of ideologies and the complex ways in which ideologies influence objective and material realities, including hiring practices and, more broadly speaking, unequal distributions of power and resources. In closing, it considers why the diffusion and consumption of ideological discourses seem to persist, despite ongoing critical engagement by researchers and practitioners, and proposes alternative paradigms aimed at overcoming the problems posed by the native-speaker model in foreign language education.Native-Speakerism: Its Resilience and Undoing 1st Edition is written by Stephanie Ann Houghton; Jeremie Bouchard and published by Springer. ISBNs for Native-Speakerism are 9789811556715, 9811556717 and the print ISBNs are 9789811556708, 9811556709.