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.

• 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

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.