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English Language as Hydra : Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures / edited by Vaughan Rapatahana and Pauline Bunce.

Contributor(s): Rapatahana, Vaughan | Bunce, Pauline.

Series: Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights. Publisher: Toronto : Multilingual Matters, 2012Edition: 1st ed.Description: xxv, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781847697493 (pbk).Subject(s): Languages in contact -- Pacific Area | English language -- Foreign coutries | English language -- Influence on foreign languages | English language -- Political aspects | English language -- Social aspects | Pacific area -- LanguagesOnline resources: Publisher's Website. | Check the UO Library catalog.

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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 and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this monstrous Hydra in action on four continents. It provides a showcase of the diverse and powerful impacts that this ever-evolving, gluttonous beast has had on so many non-English language cultures - as well as the surreptitious, drug-like ways in which it can infiltrate individual psyches." (Book Cover)

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Contributors

Acknowledgments

Series Editors' Note / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

The Genesis of this Book / Vaughan Rapatahana and Pauline Bunce

Foreword / Robert Philipson

Introduction: English Language as Thief / Vaughan Rapatahana

2. English Language as Bully in the Republic of Nauru / Xavier Barker

3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind... and Out of Line: Language Education in the Australian Indian Ocean Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands / Pauline Bunce

4. English Language as Juggernaut - Aboriginal English and Indigenous Languages in Australia / Robyn Ober and Jeanie Bell

5. English Language as Nemesis for Maori / Graham Hingangaroa Smith and Vaughan Rapatahana

6. A Personal Reflection: New Zealand Maori and English / Tamati Cairns

7. The Malchemy of English in Sri Lanka: Reinforcing Inequality through Imposing Extra-Linguistic Value / Arjuna Parakrama

8. English Language as Governess: Expatriate English Teaching Schemes in Hong Kong / Eugene Chen Eoyang, Pauline Bunce and Vaughan Rapatahana

9. English Language as Auntie: Of 'Good Intentions' and a Pedagogy of Possibilities - ELT in the Philippines and its Effects on Children's Literacy Development / Lalaine F. Yanilla Aquino

10. It's Not Always English: 'Duelling Aunties' in Brunei Darussalam / Noor Azam Haji-Othman

11. English Language as Siren Song: Hope and Hazard in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Sandra Land

12. English Language as Border-Crossing: Longing and Belonging in the South Korean Experience / Joseph Sung-Yul Park

13. English and Mandarin in Singapore: Partners in Crime? / Rani Rubdy

14. English Language as Intruder: The Effects of English Language Education in Colombia and South America - A Critical Perspective / Anne-Marie de Mejia

Afterword: Could Heracles Have Gone About Things Differently? / Alastair Pennycook

Coda: One Colonial Language: One Great Tragic Epic. English in Malaysia and Beyond / Muhammad Haji Salleh

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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 and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this monstrous Hydra in action on four continents. It provides a showcase of the diverse and powerful impacts that this ever-evolving, gluttonous beast has had on so many non-English language cultures - as well as the surreptitious, drug-like ways in which it can infiltrate individual psyches." (Book Cover)