Towards Post-Native-Speakerism

This book probes for a post-native-speakerist future and explores the nature of (English and Japanese) native-speakerism in the Japanese context, and possible grounds on which language teachers could be employed if native-speakerism is rejected (i.e., what are the language teachers of the future expected to do, and be, in practice). It reveals the problems presented by the native-speaker model in foreign-language education by exploring individual teacher-researcher narratives related to workplace experience and language-based inclusion/exclusion as well as and Japanese native-speakerism in the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language. It then seeks solutions to the problems by examining the concept of post-native-speakerism in relation to multilingual perspectives and globalisation generally, with a specific focus on English-language education.

Stephanie Ann Houghton PhD is an Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication at Saga University in Japan. She has published multiple academic books and articles in peer-reviewed international journals. She is co-editor of the book series Intercultural Communication and Language Education (Springer) with Melina Porto. Centring on the development of intercultural communicative competence, her main research areas include intercultural dialogue, native-speakerism and citizenship education. Her publications include (forthcoming) Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions, co-authored with D.J. Rivers and Kayoko Hashimoto (Routledge). Kayoko Hashimoto is a Lecturer at the School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland in Australia. Her main research areas are language policies and Japan's educational policies. Her publications include (forthcoming) Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions, co-authored with S.A. Houghton and D.J. Rivers, Routledge; and "The Japanisation of English language education: promotion of the national language within foreign language policy" in Language polices in education: Critical issues, Second edition edited by J. W. Tollefson (2013). She has been the Language and Education Thematic & Review editor for Asian Studies Review since 2013.