Towards Post-Native-Speakerism: Dynamics and Shifts

Book Overview

This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future. It explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and possible grounds on which language teachers could be employed if native-speakerism is rejected (i.e., what are the language teachers of the future expected to do, and be, in practice?). It reveals the problems presented by the native-speaker model in foreign language education by exploring individual teacher-researcher narratives related to workplace experience and language-based inclusion/exclusion, as well as Japanese native-speakerism in the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language. It then seeks solutions to the problems by examining the concept of post-native-speakerism in relation to multilingual perspectives and globalisation generally, with a specific focus on education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811355975
• ISBN13: 9789811355974
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"