The Ideological Aspects of English Language Teaching in Morocco

ISBN-13: 9783848431335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 100 str.

Seddik Mahmoud

Opis

This book is motivated by an insistent curiosity to accurately understand the assertion that English Language Teaching is not something of a closed box concerned only with technical matters and didactic routines; rather the operation is fraught with socio-political and economic ideologies. Actually, ELT is perceived as a complex machinery that normalizes and propagates certain ELT principles as "taken for granted" assumptions that would keep the English- speaking countries the main monopolizers of resources and information, the legal owners of knowledge and the inter-continental exporters of innovation and expertise. In a neo-colonial era, it seems that ELT has substituted military machinery to act as a socio-political tool at the Wests disposal to maintain their hegemony, assert their supremacy and exert power over their former colonies in a bid to realize their socio-political and economic interests. To investigate this very controversial assertion, the book focuses exclusively on some popular foreign and local English Language Centers (ELC) through a critical discourse analysis of slogans, texts and pictorial prompts in their websites to provide answers to the books hypothesis

O autorze

Mahmoud SEDDIK is an M.A holder in Applied Linguistics from Moulay Ismail University in 2013. He is a teacher of English as well as a mentor teacher in his region. Mr. SEDDIK is a prolific writer and an active blogger on a plethora of critical issues. Citizenship, Critical Applied Linguistics and Education constitute his main areas of research.