Students’ critical voices and (re)positioning toward “standard Englishes”

Wahyudi, Ribut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7124-1678 (2024) Students’ critical voices and (re)positioning toward “standard Englishes”. In: Investigating Unequal Englishes Understanding, Researching and Analysing Inequalities of the Englishes of the World. Routledge Studies in World Englishes, 1 . Routledge, London, pp. 89-102. ISBN 978103241023-4 UNSPECIFIED : UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

This chapter investigates the emerging, although conflicted, critical voices of three students toward “Standard Englishes” after taking my course, Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction. The students position themselves in terms of their being able to deconstruct the dominance of “Standard Englishes” and to avoid feeling personally invested in imitating the ‘native speaker’, as well as British English and American English. The testimonies show the critical relations and tensions between “Standard Englishes” and students’ lives, thus suggesting inequality of Englishes. Through semi-structured interviews, this chapter tracks the students’ socio-economic background, former personal and professional histories of learning English(es), as well as their current thinking and being as shaped by critical discourses, in order to explore students’ “multilayered – and conditioned – discourses, identities and practices” (Tupas & Weninger, 2020, p. 12) vis-à-vis unequal Englishes.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Unequal Englishes; students' critical voices; repositioning; standard Englishes
Subjects:	13 EDUCATION > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy > 130207 LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2002 Cultural Studies > 200206 Globalisation and Culture 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2002 Cultural Studies > 200211 Postcolonial Studies 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2003 Language Studies > 200302 English Language 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) > 20040501 Language Varieties (incl. Code Mixing, Code Switching) 13 EDUCATION > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities > Department of English Language and Letters
Depositing User:	Ribut Wahyudi
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2024 14:28

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