The book addresses the issue of native-speakerism, an ideology based on the assumption that 'native speakers' of English have a special claim to the language it

Despite unsubstantiated claims of best practice, the division of language-teaching professionals on the basis of their categorization as ‘native-speakers’ o

This book explores native-speakerism in modern language teaching, and examines the ways in which it has been both resilient and critiqued. It provides a range o

The relative status of native and non-native speaker language teachers within educational institutions has long been an issue worldwide but until recently, the

The rapid global spread of the English language has serious linguistic, ideological, socio-cultural, political, and pedagogical implications as it creates both