With English I Can Join the World but Will I Still Feel Like Me?: Puzzling Times for EAL Teaching in Secondary Schools

Workshop Presentation
Shirley Palframan,  Anna Kijora Galuszka  

With the global proliferation of English medium instruction, how can teachers of young people balance the tension between providing access to the cultural capital of native speaker level English and maintaining individual linguistic identities? This workshop is an opportunity to share reflections on the power dynamics of English medium instruction at its point of peak globalisation. We will consider how greater insights into role of language in constructing young people's identity can be achieved and how such insights should impact the practice of English language instruction in English medium international schools. The workshop session may be of interest to researchers working on secondary school education or on issues of diversity, identity and post colonial identities.