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Title: Ideologies of English Teaching and Learning in Taiwan
Author: Jackie Chang
Email: click here to access email
Degree Awarded: Sydney University , Applied Linguistics
Degree Date: 2004
Linguistic Subfield(s): Applied Linguistics
Director(s): Ingrid Piller
Abstract:

This study is motivated by a critical need to engage in socio-linguistic analysis, within the field of English language teaching (ELT) and second language acquisition (SLA) in English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) countries. The ideologies alluded to in my title are: ‘English-as-the-global-language’; ‘the-ideal-English-teacher’; ‘the-ideal-English-teaching-methodology’; ‘American-English-as-standard-English’; and ‘the- younger-the-better’. The methodology used in this research is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). I am employing this methodology to investigate language school promotional materials that may, at first cursory examination, seem mundane and even ideologically naive, but which in fact convey these very concepts. Source material is drawn from a corpus of advertising materials for private language schools in Taiwan
specifically: school fliers, websites, television commercials and television English teaching programs. They all deal with English teaching and learning. The premises of English language teaching and learning in Taiwan are based on the assumption that English language mastery is the key to achieving a better life and future for the aspiring individual, particularly in the context of globalization. However, the study reveals that English teaching and learning has, in fact, resulted in wide spread social, cultural, educational, and linguistic inequalities in contemporary Taiwanese society. A search for the reasons and possible ramifications of these disparities would appear to be more than justifiable, on both pedagogical and humanitarian grounds.
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