English Language Teaching in Brunei: A View through a Critical Lens

Autor/in	Barry, Clayton
Titel	English Language Teaching in Brunei: A View through a Critical Lens
Quelle	In: RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 42 (2011) 2, S.203-220 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-6882
DOI	10.1177/0033688211401255
Schlagwörter	Bilingual Education; Criticism; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); English Instruction; Educational Assessment; Educational Development; Educational Research; Case Studies; Motivation; Sociolinguistics; Inferences; Politics of Education; Brunei + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Kritik; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Soziolinguistik; Inference; Inferenz; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	The small sultanate of Brunei, located on the island of Borneo in the South China Sea, introduced bilingual education shortly after independence. As a consequence, Brunei's Ministry of Education outsourced much of its English language teaching requirements to qualified expatriate teachers. Despite over 25 years of systemic English language teaching in Brunei, there is a paucity of research and analysis on Brunei's unique TESOL context. This article goes some way to redress this paucity by providing a critical analysis of Brunei's English language teaching situation. The article links post-colonial theory, critical applied linguistics, critical TESOL and Bourdieuian notions of capital to account for the existence of a TESOL industry in Brunei and in the greater South East Asian region. The article then draws together these threads to provide educators with a rationale for learner motivation in Brunei. Finally, the article posits some research questions that may inspire future critical research in Brunei. (Contains 13 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10