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THE STRUGGLE TO TEACH ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE, Adrian Holliday

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2007

Eva Nunez Mendez
Eva Nunez Mendez
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Portland State University
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THE STRUGGLE TO TEACH ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE.Adrian Holliday. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. ix + 193. $25.95 paper.

Curriculum settings, the relationship among language, culture, and discourse, and the change in the ownership of English are the main topics addressed in this volume. Holliday discusses social and political issues in English language education in diverse international locations. He focuses on the injustices created by the desire to change the cultures of nonnative-speaker students and teachers and proposes suggestions on how to overcome this situation. Working with English as an international language brings up some conflicts among TESOL educators and researchers, who face cultural and political interfaces created by the native-speakerist attitude. The balance of power in the classroom is central to Holliday's proposal of cultural continuity and enriching encounters.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 495 - 497
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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