Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-p2v8j Total loading time: 0.001 Render date: 2024-05-20T22:20:04.698Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Teaching English as Culture: Paradigm Shifts in Postcolonial Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Eugene C. Eoyang
Eugene C. Eoyang*
Affiliation:
Lingnan University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The teaching of an ‘imperialist’ language like English in a postcolonial era presents not only unprecedented difficulties to the teacher, it also raises disconcerting questions about the paradigms underlying the concepts of language, language teaching, and culture. This new perspective renders inadequate, on the one hand, the peda-linguistic categories of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) and ESL (English as a Second Language), and, on the other, the postcolonial critique in general of hegemonic languages.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 50 , Issue 2: Languages and Literature in a Global Perspective , May 2003 , pp. 3 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2003

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bennett, Milton J. (1997) ‘How Not to Be a Fluent Fool: Understanding the Cultural Dimension of Language’, in Fantini, Alvino E. (ed.) New Ways in Teaching Culture. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.Google Scholar
Eoyang, E. C. (1985) ‘“Vacuity”, “Vapor”, and “Vanity”: Some Perspectives on the Void’, Tamkang Review XVI(1): 51–65.Google Scholar
Eoyang, E. C. (1997) ‘Perversities of the English Language’, The Hong Kong Linguist No. 17: 1–9.Google Scholar
Eoyang, E. C. (1999) ‘English as the World's Language’, The Hong Kong Linguist Vol. 19-20: 16–22.Google Scholar
Halliday, Michael and Hasan, Ruqaiya (1985) Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Holborow, Marnie (1999) The Politics of English. London: Sage Publications.Google Scholar
Kramsch, Claire (1993) Context and Culture in Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Lam, Lam Wan Shun (1999) ‘The Question of Culture in Global English-Language Teaching: A Post-colonial Perspective’, in Lydia, Liu (ed.) Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
Soyinka, Wole (1976) Myth, Literature and the African World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar