(Re-)Locating Tesol in an Age of Empire

Are Tesol professionals fairly seen as agents of an English-speaking empire? The authors put forward their differing proposals for the development of Tesol in a world where military invasion and occupation have been added to the previous mix of globalized economic hegemony and cultural influence exercised by the USA and its allies.

Are Tesol professionals now fairly seen as agents of a new English-speaking empire? Or, if they wish to distance themselves from this role, are there ways of working and living that would make this differentiation clear? An international group of authors put forward their differing proposals for the development of Tesol in a world where military invasion and occupation have been added to the previous mix of globalized economic hegemony and cultural influence exercised by the USA and its allies.

Notes on Contributors - Background and Overview
J.Edge - Dangerous Liaison: Globalization, Empire and TESOL
B.Kumaravadivelu - What, Then, Must We Do? Or Who Gets Hurt When We Speak, Write and Teach?
C.Brumfit - Critical Media Awareness: Teaching Resistance to Interpellation
S.Benesch - The (Re-)Framing Process as a Collaborative Locus for Change
B.F.Fabricio &
D.Santos
- Ideology and Language: Interconnections between Neo-liberalism and English
M.Holborow - Non-judgmental Discourse: Role and Relevance
J.Edge - Teaching Second Languages
for National Security Purposes: A Case of Post 9/11 USA
R.Kubota - Equity and English in South African Higher Education: Ambiguity and Colonial Language Legacy
J.Katunich - Negotiating ELT Assumptions in EIL Classrooms
A.Matsuda - Slaves of Sex, Money and Alcohol: (Re-)Locating the Target Culture of TESOL
A.L.Sellami - Neo-imperialism, Evangelism, and ELT: Modernist Missions and a Post-modern Profession
B.Johnston &
M.M.Varghese - 'The
Hedgehog and the Fox': Two Approaches to English for the Military
P.Woods - Index