China, one of the world’s oldest civilisations and now routinely cited as the world’s second largest economy, has declared its ambition to rejuvenate and prosper under the government of President Xi Jinping. Since the slogan 'Chinese Dream' was promulgated in 2012, Chinese scholars have been made aware of a new impetus in the promotion of Chinese language and culture. However, globalisation has...

Many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. However, this belief is not without its own opponents. To many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. The ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

An increasing number of studies have demonstrated how language textbooks serve as an arena for ideological reproduction. Following the theory ideology, this paper aims to examine representation English in a textbook targeting Chinese university students China. Data were subjected content analysis and critical discourse regarding their reference embodied identity options, images, case studies, c...

This article recounts the lived experience of a Rwandan English teacher’s journey from his village to international opportunities for scholarship and work, enabled by agency in navigating country’s changing linguistic landscape. Using narrative inquiry research method, study uncovers an insider’s perspective on Rwanda’s switch French English-medium education offers unique participant-centred co...

This article argues that the teaching of English as an international language (EIL) should be based on an entirely different set of assumptions than has typically informed English language teaching (ELT) pedagogy. To begin, several defining features of an international language are described. Because these features have altered the nature of English itself, the author maintains that the pedagog...

This paper interrogates the changing paradigm in evolution of traditional African proverbs postcolonial setting which Hausa youth create centered around power both social media and their technologies. In this context, notion colonized subjects, cowering under glare English linguistic imperialism, is challenged by through newly fabricated that acknowledge terms, but use platforms to convey what ...