Discourses of Chinese ELT Stakeholders on Native Speakerism

中国英语教育利益相关者对英本主义的话语

This paper reports on part of the findings of a large-scale study exploring the viewpoints of Chinese ELT stakeholders(students,teachers and administrators)on native speakerism in order to find out whether current EFL education in China is still affected by this chauvinistic ideology.The analysis of data via a critical lens reveals that the vast majority of the participants conferred upon NS products(teacher,language,culture and teaching methodology)a status superior to that granted to the NNS counterparts and failed to see linguacultural and epistemological inequalities between the English speaking West and traditional NNS countries,inter alia,China.These findings suggest that the three participant groups as an entirety succumb to native speakerism,and by extension that ELT in China is still haunted to a great degree by this ideology.Given that this study treats each participant group separately,future studies are expected to explore inter-group interactions in ideology.

本文汇报一项大型研究的部分发现。该研究探索中国英语教育利益相关者(学生、教师、管理者)对英本主义的观点,旨在揭示当前中国英语作为外语教育是否仍受到此沙文主义意识形态的影响。对数据的批评分析显示:绝大多数研究参与者赋予英语母语者产品(教师、语言、文化和教学方法)的地位高于非英语母语者同类产品,同时他们未认识到西方英语国家与传统非英语国家,特别是与中国之间语言文化和知识的不平等。这些发现表明三组研究参与者整体屈从于英本主义,拓展而言,该意识形态在很大程度上仍困扰中国英语教育。鉴于研究将三组参与者分开处理,希望未来研究探索三组人群间意识形态的互动。