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ELT Journal 1988 42(2):73-83; doi:10.1093/elt/42.2.73
© 1988 by Oxford University Press
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English as cultural action

Luke Prodromou

Luke Prodromou is a teacher and teacher trainer at the British Council, Thessaloniki. He has an MA in Shakespeare Studies from the University of Birmingham, and a Postgraduate TEFL Diploma from Leeds University. He is the author of Medicine (Pergamon), co-author of Bits and Pieces (Collins), and co-author of On The Move (Oxford University Press, 1988).

This article places the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in its cultural contexts: the culture of the native speaker of English on the one hand and that of the learner on the other. The tension which arises when the two cultures come into contact is examined in both the social and the classroom contexts. It is assumed that an ethno-centric response to the tension makes learning more difficult and that the native-speaker teacher would do well to recognize the international status of English and to work from local varieties of English.


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