Towards Post-Native-Speakerism: Dynamics and Shifts [Hardcover]

This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future. It explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and possible grounds on which language teachers could be employed if native-speakerism is rejected (i.e., what are the language teachers of the future expected to do, and be, in practice?). It reveals the problems presented by the native-speaker model in foreign language education by exploring individual teacher-researcher narratives related to workplace experience and language-based inclusion/exclusion, as well as Japanese native-speakerism in the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language. It then seeks solutions to the problems by examining the concept of post-native-speakerism in relation to multilingual perspectives and globalisation generally, with a specific focus on education.

Part I Individual Teacher-Researcher Narratives related to Workplace Experience and Language-Based Inclusion/Exclusion.- 1 Overcoming institutional native-speakerism: The experience of one teacher.- 2 Native-Speakerism in Japanese junior high schools: A stratified look into teacher narratives.- 3 They were American but shy! : Japanese university students' encounter with local students in Hawai'i.- Part II Japanese Native-Speakerism in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language.- 4 Mother Tongue Speakers or Native Speakers ?: Assumptions surrounding the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language in Japan.- 5 Native-Speakerism perceived by Non-Native-Speaking Teachers of Japanese in Hong Kong.- 6 Japanese native speaker teachers at high schools in South Korea and Thailand.- 7 Japanese native speakers' perceptions of non-native speakers: Communication between Japanese medical professionals and economic partnership agreement (EPA) nurse trainees.- Part III Post-Native-Speakerism: Multilingual perspectives and globalisation.- 8 A multilingual paradigm in language education: What it means for language teachers.- 9 Going Beyond ló-