Thank you for this interview! In the introduction to the interview, I am heartened by the incisive question, “… to put it bit pointedly: Can US native speakers of English teach English ethically?” In my experience, ethnocentrism and racism are perpetrated by Eurocentric native speakers of English/ESL who experience a type of “blindness.” As white teachers, we are blind to our privilege, and as Malcolm Gladwell would say, this advantage (i.e., our privilege) becomes a disadvantage for us in our teaching. Practices that I have embraced in my classes at the Community College of Philadelphia is “Cultural Humility” and “Courageous Pedagogy” (Shante Antrom, Diversity Fellow) to address Eurocentric linguistic bias in my teaching practices and explicitly identify ethnocentrism in my teaching. It is this blindness that prevents many of us from seeing the linguistic and cultural bias of the English we choose to teach and the way we choose to teach it.
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Thank you for this interview! In the introduction to the interview, I am heartened by the incisive question, “… to put it bit pointedly: Can US native speakers of English teach English ethically?” In my experience, ethnocentrism and racism are perpetrated by Eurocentric native speakers of English/ESL who experience a type of “blindness.” As white teachers, we are blind to our privilege, and as Malcolm Gladwell would say, this advantage (i.e., our privilege) becomes a disadvantage for us in our teaching. Practices that I have embraced in my classes at the Community College of Philadelphia is “Cultural Humility” and “Courageous Pedagogy” (Shante Antrom, Diversity Fellow) to address Eurocentric linguistic bias in my teaching practices and explicitly identify ethnocentrism in my teaching. It is this blindness that prevents many of us from seeing the linguistic and cultural bias of the English we choose to teach and the way we choose to teach it.
For context of this interview, see https://www.languageonthemove.com/how-to-teach-tesol-ethically-in-an-english-dominant-world/