Overview
- Develops the concept of “the ‘native speaker’ frame”, providing a new lens for examining a currently very controversial and much-discussed issue.
- Offers a counterargument to currently prevalent work on “post-native-speakerism”.
- Provides a research method for investigating ‘native speaker’ framing in ELT
- Shows how such framing can be resisted by teachers, providing a practical way forward for the field.
Part of the book series: English Language Education (ELED, volume 19)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theorising the ‘Native Speaker’ Frame
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Identifying the ‘Native Speaker’ Frame
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book introduces the concept of the ‘native speaker’ frame: a perceptual filter within English Language Teaching (ELT) which views the linguistic and cultural norms and the educational technology of the anglophone West as being normative, while the norms and practices of non-Western countries are viewed as deficient. Based on a rich source of ethnographic data, and employing a frame analysis approach, it investigates the ways in which this ‘native-speaker’ framing influenced the construction and operation of a Japanese university EFL program. While the program appeared to be free of explicit expressions of native-speakerism, such as discrimination against teachers, this study found that the practices of the program were underpinned by implicitly native-speakerist assumptions based on the stereotyping of Japanese students and the Japanese education system. The book provides a new perspective on debates around native-speakerism by examining how the dominant framing of a program may still be influenced by the ideology, even in cases where overt signs of native-speakerism appear to be absent.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert J. Lowe is a lecturer in the Department of English Communication, Tokyo Kasei University, Japan. He is the co-author of Teaching English as a Lingua Franca: The Journey from EFL to ELF (2018) and co-editor of Duoethnography in English Language Teaching: Research, Reflection, and Classroom Application (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uncovering Ideology in English Language Teaching
Book Subtitle: Identifying the 'Native Speaker' Frame
Authors: Robert J. Lowe
Series Title: English Language Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46231-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46230-7Published: 03 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46233-8Published: 03 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46231-4Published: 02 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-6967
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6975
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 190
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Teaching, Language Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Learning & Instruction, Higher Education