The book addresses the issue of native-speakerism, an ideology based on the assumption that 'native speakers' of English have a special claim to the language itself, through critical qualitative studies of the lived experiences of practising teachers and students in a range of scenarios.

Introduction PART I: EXPOSING THE IDEOLOGIES PROMOTING NATIVE-SPEAKERIST TENDENCIES IN ELT 1. Native-speakerism: Taking the Concept Forward and Achieving Cultural Belief; Adrian Holliday 2. Researching Discourses of Culture and Native-speakerism; Ireri Armenta and Adrian Holliday PART II: NATIVE-SPEAKERISM AND TEACHERS OF ENGLISH 3. Rachel's Story: Development of a 'Native speaker' English Language Teacher; Pamela Aboshiha 4. Redefining English Language Teacher Identity; Anne Swan 5. The Influence of Native-speakerism on CLIL Teachers in Korea; Yeonsuk Bae PART III: NATIVE-SPEAKERISM AND PERCEPTIONS OF IDENTITY 6. The Challenge of Native-speakerism in ELT: Labelling and Categorizing; Yasemin Oral 7. Constructing the English Teacher: Discourses of Attachment and Detachment at a Mexican University; Irasema Mora Pablo 8. Interrogating Assumptions of Native-speakerism from the Perspective of Kuwait University English Language Students; Ayesha Kamal 9. The Role English Plays in the Construction of Professional Identities in NEST-NNES Bilingual Marriages in Istanbul; Caroline Fell Kurban PART IV: NATIVE-SPEARKERISM IN THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT 10. The Politics of Remediation: Cultural Disbelief and Non-traditional Students; Victoria Odeniyi 11. 'I Am Not What You Think I Am': EFL Undergraduates' Experience of Academic Writing, Facing Discourses of Formulaic Writing; Nasima Yamchi 12. Perceptions Towards Alternative Research Writing: Conjuring Up 'Nostalgic Modernism' to Combat the 'Native English Speaker' and 'Nonnative English Speaker' Differentiation Amongst TESOL Academics; William Sughrua