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Critical Practices in Asia

A Project of Possibilities in the era of World Englishes

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Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS,volume 82))

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This chapter provides challenges and possibilities which language pedagogues face in the conceptualized world of globalization where both universalization and diversification are promoted to serve diverse stakeholders. Especially given changing aspects of the roles of education in the current domination of neoliberal market- oriented discourses, the roles of English and practices of teaching English in Asia, where there are more speakers of English than any other part of the world, shed important light on how English is perceived and mobilized to benefit certain groups of people over others. That is, in Asia, English has been considered a hard currency in securing a job for social success in the ever-more capitalized world. In such a context, both utilitarian and economical rationales of teaching and learning English have been rarely challenged but are accepted without close examination of historical, sociocultural, and political contexts of how English is adopted and promoted in various regions.

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