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Illegitimate practices : global English language education /
ELT education, as a commodity, takes many forms in countries all over the world. This book questions how the benefits of international English language education projects are distributed. The critical issues of language rights and linguistic diversity are pivotal in the book's examination of do...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY :
Multilingual Matters,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Linguistic diversity and language rights.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgements; 1 Setting the Scene: The International Context of English Language Education; The Sites; Australian Universities and the Project Field; The Internationalisation of English; The First Language: Endangered in the Project; Projectisation of ELT; Practices in the Field; Cultural Practices; Summary of the Book; 2 Naming the Game: Positions and Interest in the IELEP Field; Project 1: Laos; Project 2: The Fee-Based Project in Japan; The Positions of English; Bourdieu's Explanatory Tools; Mapping the Fields.
- Level 1: Analysis of the Position of the IELEP Field vis-à-vis the Meta-field of PowerLevel 2: The Map of Relations between the Agents in the Field; Level 3: Habitus in the Field of the IELEPs; 3 Struggles in the Game of the IELEP; Struggle to Win: Project Tenders, Bids and Proposals; Struggle over Resources in the Field: Forms of Capital and Exchange Rates; Struggles over Cultural Capital in Project 2; Constraints in the Field; Notions of Success and/or Failure; 4 Practices in the Project Field: ELT and Project Work; Construct of Project in the ELT Field; Discontent with the Project.
- Distrust of Host-Country ExpertsThe ELT Project: Teaching and Learning Practices; Conflict within the Australian Teams; 5 Talk in the Field: The 'English Only' IELEP; Talking Up the Project: Project Documents; English as an International Language/Lingua Franca; Legitimate Voice: Who Is In Charge?; 6 Cultural Practices: The Project Field; A Personal Mis-construction of Culture; Introduction to Culture and Habitus; Constructions of 'Culture' in Project Work; 7 The IELEP: An Illegitimate Field; Bourdieu and the Story of the IELEP Field; The 'English Only' IELEP.
- The Legitimate ELT Field: A Possibility or Dream?Appendix: Description of Participants; References; Index.