Of EFL teachers, conscience, and cowardice  

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Rajagopalan, Kanavillil

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 53 no. 3 (Jul. 1999), page 200-206.
Fulltext: 1999.3.200.full.pdf (443.55KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ELT/53 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The central purposes of this paper is to plead for an urgent review of a currently fashionable rhetoric, according to which the spread of English is endangering many regional languages and their corresponding cultures. The unmistakable implication of this opinions is that spread of EFL 'has a nefariously aggressive and imperialistic dimension to it'. I contend that guilt complex which is likely to arise among EFL teachers in particular from a suspicion of complicity in this gigantic enterprise of neo-colonialism is totally misguided. In my view, the whole thesis is based on premises that no longer hold good in a marked by cultural intermixing and growing multilingualism at a hitherto unprecedented level, leading to unstable identities and shifting conceptual contours.

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