Native-Speakerism: Its Resilience and Undoing (Paperback)

Introduction.- Part I The ‘resilience’ of native-speakerism.- 1. The resilience of native-speakerism: A realist perspective.- 2. Native-speakerism and nihonjinron in Japanese higher education policy and related hiring practices: A focus on the Japanese ‘top global universities’ project.- 3. English as a foreign language teachers’ understandings of the native/non-native dichotomy: An Argentine perspective.- 4. Overcoming native-speakerism through post-native-speakerist pedagogy: Gaps between teacher and pre-service English teacher priorities.- Part II The ‘undoing’ of native-speakerism.- 5. Menburyu and the shaguma: (De)constructing (inter)national cultural practices and symbols within a post-native-speakerist framework.- 6. A multilingual paradigm: Bridging theory and practice.- 7. ‘Native’ Japanese speaker teachers in Japanese language education at primary and secondary schools in Australia.- 8. Challenging and interrogating native speakerism in an elementary school professional development programme in Japan.- 9. Post-native-speakerism and the multilingual subject: Language policy, practice and pedagogy.- 10. Fostering students’ empathy and cultural sensitivity to undo native-speakerism: A case study of a transnational education platform involving universities in Hawai‘i and Japan.- 11. Public dialogue, disruptive spaces, and the undoing of native-speakerism.