Presenter: Nobuyuki Hino
Teaching EIL from a post-native-speakerist perspective in an Asian context: 35 years of practice in Japan
Nobuyuki Hino
Osaka University
Originally inspired by the indigenous Japanese philosophy of kokusai-eigo (international English), coupled with Larry E. Smith’s concept of EIL (English as an International Language), the speaker has been teaching “de-Anglo-Americanized English” (Kunihiro, 1970) in Japan since the early 1980s, from a standpoint which may now be called “post-Anglophone” (Kirkpatrick, 2010) or “post-native-speakerist” (Houghton, 2014) perspectives. Based on his 35 years of pedagogical practice in EIL, along with its theoretical foundation built on the integration of EIL, WE (World Englishes), and ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) paradigms, he will discuss how English may be taught in changing glocalized Asia.