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Illegitimate Practices
Jacqueline Widin
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Description for Illegitimate Practices
Paperback. This book examines the tensions and powerlines which emerge between participants in the volatile international ELT project marketplace. The book focuses on two ELT projects and maps the prevailing interests in the field while seeking ways that providers and donors can more equally distribute linguistic, educational and economic resources. Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; EBA. Category: (L) ELT / TEFL; (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 304.
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 domination and subordination in international language education projects. The author’s description of the role and teaching of English is based on her experience of working in ELT aid and development and fee-based projects, and through it she unmasks the interests and intentions of aid and fee-based language education projects. The two case studies that form the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847693068
SKU
V9781847693068
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99-15
About Jacqueline Widin
Jacqueline Widin has extensive experience and expertise in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and in teaching and research of tertiary-led pre- and in-service teacher training programs in Australia and in countries outside of Australia. She has a particular interest in the relationship between language and human rights and the sociopolitical dynamics of the English language teaching field. ... Read more
Reviews for Illegitimate Practices
From 'green revolutions' to 'free-market' reforms, the history of international development schemes has been marked by dubious goals and failed potential, most consistently through the privileging of donor interests over local needs and conditions. Widin’s insightful study of two off-shore English language education projects suggests that little has changed as universities and governments in English-dominant countries exploit this growing commodity ... Read more