Description
The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the voices of teachers articulating their own concerns have been rare. This innovative volume explores language-based forms of prejudice against native-speaker teachers.
Chapter
Part 1 Native-Speakerism: Shifting to a Postmodern Paradigm
1 ‘Native Speaker’ Teachers and Cultural Belief
Part 2 ‘Native Speaker’ Teachers in Workplace Conflict
2 (Dis)Integration of Mother-Tongue Teachers in Italian Universities: Human Rights Abuses and the Quest for Equal Treatment in the European Single Market
3 Kumamoto General Union vs. the Prefectural University of Kumamoto: Reviewing the Decision Rendered by the Kumamoto District Court
4 The Overthrow of the Foreign Lecturer Position and its Aftermath
5 Institutionalized Native-Speakerism: Voices of Dissentand Acts of Resistance
6 Negotiating a ProfessionalIdentity: Non-JapaneseTeachers of English in Pre-Tertiary Education in Japan
7 Forming Pathways of Belonging: Social Inclusionfor Teachers Abroad
Part 3 Employment Policies and Patterns in Japanese Tertiary and Secondary Education
8 Communicative English inJapan and ‘Native Speakersof English’
9 Hiring Criteria for Japanese University English-Teaching Faculty
10 On the (Out)Skirts of TESOLNetworks of Homophily: Substantive Citizenshipin Japan
11 The Construction of the‘Native Speaker’ in Japan’sEducational Policies for TEFL
12 The Meaning of Japan’s Roleof Professional Foreigner
Part 4 Native-Speakerism as a Multi-Faceted and Contemporary Social Phenomenon
13 Scrutinizing the Native Speaker as Referent, Entityand Project
14 Racialized Native Speakers: Voices of Japanese American EnglishLanguage Professionals
15 Native-Speakerism through English-Only Policies:Teachers, Students and the Changing Face of Japan
Part 5 Native-Speakerism from Socio-Historical Viewpoints
16 Changing Perceptions? A Variationist Sociolinguistic Perspective on Native Speaker Ideologies and Standard English in Japan
17 Ideologies of Nativism andLinguistic Globalization
18 The Native Speaker Language Teacher: Through Timeand Space