Response to Ngugi's Article
English became the language of the global communication. In the age of the globalization ELT(English Language Teaching) needs to focus on more on the local concerns. For that English teacher need to raise awarness about English learning. Teaching is not just transferring knowledge. If teacher just keep transferring without critical thinking , linguistic imperialism will keep going. Decolonizing the language was one of the main concerns of the newly liberated counties in the poscolnial age. To establish their new identities, they even developed new Englishes which were altered from the standard English to suit local surroundings. But still in Korea people worship English. And also ELT focus on just Amercican English. But it contain big problem that is linguistic imperialism.
Actually from 6th English curiccula, one of the English subject objective is that developing student's ablility for introducing Korean culture to the foreigner. It is very necessary ability to the students. English is not a worship things, it is mean to cultivate cross-cultural communicative competence. So as a teacher we have to contribute to the students' comprehnsive understanding of English language and cultures in a critical comparison with their own language and culture.
That is a really good point. We need to teach our students how to introduce Korean cultures.
답글삭제I tried last year. They loved it.