Global Englishes-informed Teacher Education: Present Cases and Future Directions

Abstract

The global spread of English has led to discussions and debates regarding its teaching. Some argue that language teacher education should prepare pre- and in-service teachers to teach English from a Global Englishes (GE) perspective. In this talk, I will discuss the need for GE-informed teacher education by firstly examining the need to move away from traditional assumptions about native speakerism in language teaching and then linking it to individual cognition in GE-informed teacher education. I will present five cases of GE teacher education in various contexts and discuss the various challenges and future directions for GE-informed teacher education. The implications for GE language teacher education from the perspectives of “looking inward”, “looking around”, and “looking forward” will be discussed at the end of the talk.

Speaker

About the Speaker

Fan Fang obtained his PhD from the Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton, UK. He is Professor of Applied Linguistics at College of Liberal Arts, Shantou University, China. His research interests include Global Englishes, language attitude, identity, intercultural communication and language education. He has published articles in journals including Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Asian Englishes, Cambridge Journal of Education, ELT Journal, English Today, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Language, Culture and Curriculum, Language Teaching Research, Lingua, System, among others. His recent books include a monograph titled Re-positioning accent attitude in the Global Englishes paradigm (Routledge) and some edited volumes titled Critical Perspectives on Global Englishes in Asia: Language Policy, Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment (2019, co-edited with Dr Handoyo Widodo), Policies, Politics, and Ideologies of English Medium Instruction in Asian Universities: Unsettling Critical Edges (2023, co-edited with Dr Pramod K. Sah) and English-Medium Instruction Pedagogies in Multilingual Universities in Asia (2024, co-edited with Dr Pramod K. Sah).

Date

Dec 5

Time

11:00am-12:15pm

Location

MWC646

Chair

Dr George Jiang