- English as an International Language - Is EIL Natural, Neutral and Beneficial in Japan?

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This paper explores whether English language teaching and learning is natural, neutral and beneficial in Japan. The paper discusses English Language Teaching (ELT) practices as cultural practices. It describes how the teaching practices themselves represent particular visions of the world and thus make the English language classroom a site of cultural politics, and a place where different versions of how the world is and should be are struggled over. It did not stop, therefore, with an analysis of the wide cultural gaps between North American or European approaches to language teaching and those in Japan. Rather, we explore the understanding of these in relationship to one particular aspect of the discourse of English as an International Language (EIL), namely the view of English language teaching as development aid, a view which often carries with it an unquestioned belief in the innate superiority of Western teaching practices and the innate inferiority of local practices such as the practices in Japan.

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