TY - BOOK ID - 78129542 TI - ELT, Gender and International Development PY - 2010 SN - 1283147572 1847693059 1847693032 1847694829 9781847693051 9781283147576 9781847694829 9781847693044 1847693040 9781847693037 9786613147578 PB - Bristol Blue Ridge Summit DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Women teachers. KW - Women as teachers KW - Teachers KW - Women educators KW - EFL (Language study) KW - English as a foreign language KW - English as a second language KW - English to speakers of other languages KW - ESL (Language study) KW - ESOL (Language study) KW - Teaching English as a second language KW - TEFL (Language study) KW - TESL (Language study) KW - Germanic languages KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers. KW - Foreign students KW - Development studies. KW - ELT classrooms. KW - ELT. KW - English language teaching. KW - Gender relations. KW - Gender studies. KW - International development. KW - Neocolonialism. KW - Postcolonial English language teaching. KW - Teacher narratives. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78129542 AB - For believers in the power of English, language as aid can deliver the promise of a brighter future; but in a neocolonial world of international development, a gulf exists between belief and reality. Rich with echoes of an earlier colonial era, this book draws on the candid narratives of white women teachers, and situates classroom practices within a broad reading of the West and the Rest. What happens when white Western men and women come in to rebuild former colonies in Asia? How do English language lessons translate, or disintegrate, in a radically different world? How is English teaching linked to ideas of progress? This book presents the paradoxes of language aid in the twenty-first century in a way that will challenge your views of English and its power to improve the lives of people in the developing world. ER -