Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contributors;
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Series Editor’s Foreword;
Pauline Bunce, Robert Phillipson, Vaughan Rapatahana and Ruanni Tupas: Introduction
I: Hydra At Large
1. Alamin Mazrui: The English Language in a Global Context: Between Expansion and Resistance
2. Robert Phillipson: Promoting English: Hydras Old and New
3. Ruanni Tupas: English, Neocolonialism and Forgetting
4. Hywel Coleman: The English Language as Naga in Indonesia
5. Mehdi Boussebaa: Offshore Call Centre Work is Breeding a New Colonialism
II: Hydra Mythology
6. Ryuko Kubota and Tomoyo Okuda: Confronting Language Myths, Linguicism and Racism in English Language Teaching in Japan
7. Hilary Smith: Mr Jones: Mi Laik Askim Yu Samting
8. Phiona Stanley: Must the (Western) Hydra be Blond(e)? Performing Cultural ‘Authenticity’ in Intercultural Education
9. Pauline Bunce: Voluntary Overseas English Language Teaching: A Myopic, Altruistic Hydra
10. Ari Páll Kristinsson: English Language as ‘Fatal Gadget’ in Iceland
11. Bill Templer: The English Hydra as Invader on the Post-Communist ‘New Periphery’ in Bulgaria
12. Pauline Bunce: The English Alphabet: Alpha-Best or Alpha-Beast?
13. Tammy Ho Lai-Ming: ‘Languages’
III: Confronting The Hydra
14. Lindsey Collen and the Ledikasyon Pu Travayer Team: Mauritian Kreol Confronts English and French Hydras
15. Kathleen Heugh, Blasius Agha-ah Chiatoh and Godfrey Sentumbwe: ‘Hydra Languages’ and Exclusion versus Local Languages and Community Participation in three African Countries
16. Zubeida Mustafa: The Destruction of Nadia’s Dream: The English Language Tyrant in Pakistan’s Education System
17. A. Giridhar Rao: The (Illusory) Promise of English in India
IV: Resistance and Cohabitation with The Hydra
18. Aja Y. Martinez: A Personal Reflection on Chican@ Language and Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands: The English Language Hydra as Past and Present Imperialism
19. Christof Demont-Heinrich: The Struggle to Raise Bilingual Kids in the Belly of the English Hydra Beast: The United States of America
20. Julian Edge: TEFL and International Politics: A Personal Narrative
21. Miklós Kontra: Hungary: A Sham Fight-Back Against the Domination of English
22. Mobo Gao & Vaughan Rapatahana: The English Language as a Trojan Horse within the People’s Republic of China
23. Clarissa Menezes Jordão: TEFL as Hydra: Rescuing Brazilian Teacher Educators from ‘Privilege’
24. Vaughan Rapatahana: ‘Writing back (to the centre)’
Afterword: Ahmed Kabel
