Vaughan (Hrsg.) Rapatahana

English Language as Hydra

Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bunce, Pauline (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84769-752-3
EAN: 9781847697523
Produktnummer: 14010804
Verlag: Channel View Publications
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 17'304 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Vaughan Rapatahana was born in Patea, Aotearoa-New Zealand. He has a doctorate from the University of Auckland and he has worked as a teacher in the Republic of Nauru, Brunei Darussalam, the United Arab Emirates, China and Hong Kong. He has written widely in a variety of genres, and is the author of several books, collections of poems and poetry teaching resources.Pauline Bunce is an Australian teacher who has worked in Sri Lanka, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Her doctoral research with Charles Darwin University in Australia and her regular feature articles in the South China Morning Post have had a major influence on English teaching practices in Hong Kong.