Ryuko Kubota
University of British Columbia
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Enacting Antiracism in Teaching English more
Sat, Apr 30, 13:00-Tue, May 31, 23:55 Asia/Seoul
Antiracism in English language teaching is part of the engagement with social justice, a set of principles for establishing individual, societal, and environmental wellbeing. Yet, an explicit discussion of race, racism, and antiracism is often avoided, leaving these concepts inadequately understood. This presentation will bring these concepts to light and invite the audience to critically engage in race-aware discourse and pedagogy. To do so, I will outline key concepts, including the concept of race, different types of racism, intersectionality, and the relationship between race and language. Especially, native-speakerism needs to be problematized in relation to the supremacy of Whiteness as perpetuating raciolinguistic ideologies at interpersonal, systemic, and epistemological dimensions. Becoming aware of these issues will encourage teachers to recognize how race is reflected in teaching materials, pedagogical practices, and institutional structures, and to enact antiracism within a broader engagement with social justice.
The 10 Myths of English Language Teaching and Learning more
Sat, Apr 30, 11:00-Tue, May 31, 23:55 Asia/Seoul
This workshop introduces our new book (영어교육에 대한 10가지 환상, 10 Myths of English Language Teaching and Learning; 2021, 글로벌콘텐츠/Global Contents), which is a Korean translation from the Japanese version with annotations that address similar issues in South Korean contexts. The primary purpose of this book is to question common beliefs about English language teaching and learning in Japan and South Korea. These briefs have been pointed out as problematic by scholars in applied linguistics in the West during the last 30 years or more, but they have continued to be supported to date by teachers, parents, policymakers, and other ordinary people outside of academia. Many of the ideas presented in the book invite readers to rethink taken-for-granted ideas about what the best approach to teaching and learning English is. The audience will be invited to gain renewed knowledge and ways of thinking that would contribute to linguistic and human diversity and equity.
