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Author Rapatahana, Vaughan

Title English Language as Hydra : Its Impacts on Non-English Language Cultures
Published Clevedon : Channel View Publications, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages)
Series Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
Linguistic diversity and language rights.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Note -- The Genesis of this Book -- Foreword -- Introduction: English Language as Thief -- 1. The Challenge - Ndaraca ya Thiomi: Languages as Bridges -- 2. English Language as Bully in the Republic of Nauru -- 3. Out of Sight, Out of Mind... and Out of Line: Language Education in the Australian Indian Ocean Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands -- 4. English Language as Juggernaut - Aboriginal English and Indigenous Languages in Australia -- 5. English Language as Nemesis for Ma¯ori -- 6. A Personal Reflection: New Zealand Māori and English -- 7. The Malchemy of English in Sri Lanka: Reinforcing Inequality through Imposing Extra-Linguistic Value -- 8. English Language as Governess: Expatriate English Teaching Schemes in Hong Kong -- 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 -- 10. It's Not Always English: 'Duelling Aunties' in Brunei Darussalam -- 11. English Language as Siren Song: Hope and Hazard in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- 12. English Language as Border-Crossing: Longing and Belonging in the South Korean Experience -- 13. English and Mandarin in Singapore: Partners in Crime? -- 14. English Language as Intruder: The Effects of English Language Education in Colombia and South America - a Critical Perspective -- Afterword: Could Heracles Have Gone About Things Differently? -- Coda: One Colonial Language: One Great Tragic Epic. 263 English in Malaysia and Beyond
Summary English Language as Hydra argues that, far too often, the English language industry has become a swirling, beguiling monster, unashamedly intent on challenging local lingua-diversity and threatening individual identities. This book brings together the voices of linguists, literary figures and teaching professionals in a wide-ranging exposé of this enormous Hydra in action on four continents
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Subject Languages in contact -- Pacific Area
English language -- Foreign coutries
English language -- Influence on foreign languages.
English language -- Political aspects.
English language -- Social aspects.
English language -- Influence on foreign languages
English language -- Political aspects
English language -- Social aspects
Language and languages
Languages in contact
SUBJECT Pacific Area -- Languages
Subject Pacific Area
Form Electronic book
Author Bunce, Pauline
ISBN 9781847697516
1847697518