Why English? : Confronting the Hydra / Pauline Bunce, Ruanni Tupas, Vaughan Rapatahana, Robert Phillipson.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Series Editor’s Foreword / Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove -- Introduction / Bunce, Pauline / Phillipson, Robert / Rapatahana, Vaughan / Tupas, Ruanni -- Part 1: Hydra at Large -- 1. The English Language in a Global Context: Between Expansion and Resistance / Mazrui, Alamin -- 2. Promoting English: Hydras Old and New / Phillipson, Robert -- 3. English, Neocolonialism and Forgetting / Tupas, Ruanni -- 4. The English Language as Naga in Indonesia / Coleman, Hywel -- 5. Offshore Call Centre Work is Breeding a New Colonialism / Boussebaa, Mehdi -- Part 2: Hydra Mythology -- 6. Confronting Language Myths, Linguicism and Racism in English Language Teaching in Japan / Kubota, Ryuko / Okuda, Tomoyo -- 7. Mr Jones: Mi Laik Askim Yu Samting / Smith, Hilary -- 8. Must the (Western) Hydra Be Blond(e)? Performing Cultural ‘Authenticity’ in Intercultural Education / Stanley, Phiona -- 9. Voluntary Overseas English Language Teaching: A Myopic, Altruistic Hydra / Bunce, Pauline -- 10. English Language as ‘Fatal Gadget’ in Iceland / Kristinsson, Ari Páll -- 11. The English Hydra as Invader on the Post-Communist ‘New Periphery’ in Bulgaria / Templer, Bill -- 12. The English Alphabet: Alpha-Best or Alpha-Beast? / Bunce, Pauline -- 13. ‘Languages’ / Lai-Ming, Tammy Ho -- Part 3: Confronting the Hydra -- 14. Mauritian Kreol Confronts English and French Hydras / Collen, Lindsey -- 15. ‘Hydra Languages’ and Exclusion versus Local Languages and Community Participation in three African Countries / Heugh, Kathleen / Chiatoh, Blasius Agha-ah -- 16. The Destruction of Nadia’s Dream: The English Language Tyrant in Pakistan’s Education System / Mustafa, Zubeida -- 17. The (Illusory) Promise of English in India / Rao, A. Giridhar -- Part 4: Resistance and Cohabitation with the Hydra -- 18. A Personal Reflection on Chican@ Language and Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands: The English-Language Hydra as Past and Present Imperialism / Martinez, Aja Y. -- 19. The Struggle to Raise Bilingual Children in the Belly of the English Hydra Beast: The United States of America / Demont-Heinrich, Christof -- 20. TEFL and International Politics: A Personal Narrative / Edge, Julian -- 21. Hungary: A Sham Fightback Against the Domination of English / Kontra, Miklós -- 22. The English Language as a Trojan Horse within the People’s Republic of China / Gao, Mobo / Rapatahana, Vaughan -- 23. TEFL as Hydra: Rescuing Brazilian Teacher Educators from ‘Privilege’ / Jordão, Clarissa Menezes -- 24. ‘Writing back (to the centre)’ / Rapatahana, Vaughan -- Afterword: Decentring the Hydra: Towards a more Equitable Linguistic Order / Kabel, Ahmed

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