English Language Teaching in Brunei: A View Through a Critical Lens  

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Barry, Clayton

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 42 no. 2 (2011), page 203-220.
Topik: English language teaching in Brunei; critical TESOL; linguistic imperialism; Bruneian English; critical pedagogy; English learner attitudes; linguistic capital; Bourdieu
Fulltext: Barry_Clayton.pdf (251.52KB)

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The small sultanate of Brunei, located on the island of Borneo in the South China Sea, introduced bilingual education shortly after independence. As a consequence, Brunei’s Ministry of Education outsourced much of its English language teaching requirements to qualified expatriate teachers. Despite over 25 years of systemic English language teaching in Brunei, there is a paucity of research and analysis on Brunei’s unique TESOL context. This article goes some way to redress this paucity by providing a critical analysis of Brunei’s English language teaching situation. The article links post-colonial theory, critical applied linguistics, critical TESOL and Bourdieuian notions of capital to account for the existence of a TESOL industry in Brunei and in the greater South East Asian region. The article then draws together these threads to provide educators with a rationale for learner motivation in Brunei. Finally, the article posits some research questions that may inspire future critical research in Brunei.

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