Native-Speakerism in Japan

Stephanie A. Houghton is an Associate Professor in Intercultural Communication at Saga University, Japan. She holds a PhD in Education from Durham University, UK. She is author of Intercultural Dialogue in Practice, co-author of Developing Criticality through Foreign Language Education (with Etsuko Yamada), and co-editor of Becoming Intercultural: Inside and Outside the Classroom (with Yau Tsai).Damian J. Rivers holds an MSc in Social Psychology, an MA in Applied Linguistics, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics/Sociolinguistics from the University of Leicester, UK. He is currently an Associate Professor at Osaka University and undertakes research into intergroup dynamics in foreign language education.

Is the English Native Speaker a political or a linguistic concept? Native Speakerism in Japan persuades us that it is political. Houghton and Rivers have assembled a powerful group of ELT professionals with first-hand experience of Japan and Italy who argue convincingly that native speakerism always has racist and gendered overtones.

• AcknowledgementsStephanie A. Houghton and Damian J. Rivers: Introduction: Redefining Native-SpeakerismPART 1 NATIVE-SPEAKERISM: SHIFTING TO A POSTMODERN PARADIGM1. Adrian Holliday: ‘Native Speaker’ Teachers and Cultural BeliefPART 2 ‘NATIVE SPEAKER’ TEACHERS IN WORKPLACE CONFLICT2. David Petrie: (Dis)Integration of Mother Tongue Teachers in Italian Universities: Human Rights Abuses and the Quest for Equal Treatment in the European Single Market3. Kirk Masden: Kumamoto General Union vs. The Prefectural University of Kumamoto: Reviewing the Decision Rendered by the Kumamoto District Court4. Stephanie A. Houghton: The Overthrow of the Foreign Lecturer Position, and its Aftermath5. Damian J. Rivers: Institutionalized Native-Speakerism: Voices of Dissent and Acts of Resistance6. Joe Geluso: Negotiating a Professional Identity: Non-Japanese Teachers of English in Pre-Tertiary Education in Japan7. Joseph Falout: Forming Pathways of Belonging: Social Inclusion for Teachers AbroadPART 3 EMPLOYMENT POLICIES AND PATTERNS IN JAPANESE TERTIARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION8. Ryoko Tsuneyoshi: Communicative English in Japan and ‘Native Speakers of English’9. Blake E. Hayes: Hiring Criteria for Japanese University English-Teaching Faculty10. Salem Kim Hicks: On The (Out)Skirts of TESOL Networks of Homophily: Substantive Citizenship in Japan11. Kayoko Hashimoto: The Construction of the ‘Native Speaker’ in Japan’s Educational Policies For TEFL12. Evan Samuel Heimlich: The Meaning of Japan’s Role of Professional ForeignerPART 4 NATIVE-SPEAKERISM AS A MULTI-FACETED AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PHENOMENON13. Glenn Toh: Scrutinizing the Native Speaker as Referent, Entity and Project14. Ryuko Kubota and Donna Fujimoto: Racialized Native Speakers: Voices of Japanese American English Language Professionals15. Jennifer Yphantides: Native-Speakerism through English-Only Policies: Teachers, Students and the Changing Face of JapanPART 5 NATIVE-SPEAKERISM FROM SOCIO-HISTORICAL VIEWPOINTS16. Robert M. McKenzie: Changing Perceptions? A Variationist Sociolinguistic Perspective on Native Speaker Ideologies and Standard English in Japan17. Philip Seargeant: Ideologies of Nativism and Linguistic Globalisation18. Martine Derivry-Plard: The Native Speaker Language Teacher: Through Time and Space