(Re)claiming English Language Today

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Postcolonial English languagE Politics today: REading Ramanathan’s The english-Vernacular DiViDe

In this essay, I will discuss the ideological structure of current postcolonial English language politics in the world, arguing that despite the “advances” in post-Independence nationalist rhetoric in most “postcolonial” countries, the debates on language continue to rehash tired voices of pragmatism and linguistic nationalism. I further argue that what is usually “notable” in current postcolon...

Liabilities of Language: Audre Lorde Reclaiming Difference

Distortions around the naming and the misnaming of human differences are the central foci of Audre Lorde's speech entitled ''Age, Race, Class, Sex: Women Redefining Difference, "which she delivered at Amherst College in Massachusetts on April3, 7 980. Lorde's speech at Amherst exemplifies her deep understanding of what she refers to in an earlier speech as "that language which has been made to ...

English Language Teaching Material Development

The goal of language programs is to utilize language for effective communication. Due to the needs, interests, and motivations of language learners, they may show individual differences in their lan- guage learning. Materials used in language programs can be instructional, experiential, elucidative, or exploratory in that they can inform learners about the language, provide experience of the la...

Postmodernism and English Language Teaching

This paper aims at shedding light on the concept of postmodernism, and its implications in the TESOL. Postmodern philosophy as a prevalent concept and a hot buzzword in philosophy, science, and art is believed to have influenced the TESOL theoretically in some ways. The elements of postmodernism including: constructivism, subjectivism, relativism, localism, and pragmatism are found to have been...