ABSTRACT:
- TESOL, an 'international association', and its 'global partner' the British Council, pursue government-defined goals. How professionally defensible is dispatching English native speakers worldwide when under-qualified linguistically and culturally? English teaching in national education systems presupposes bilingual, bicultural competence, including translation and metalinguistic knowledge. Myth-making about 'global' English needs constant debunking.
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Message sent by Dr. Robert Phillipson to the International Convention & English Language Expo, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 12-15 March 2019. The full message and more (baldaŭ en esperanto, bientôt en français, etc):
http://www.linguistic-rights.org/robert-phillipson/#TESOL2019